Existência e permanência: um estudo das mulheres na educação profissional e tecnológica

Abstract

This dissertation is part of the research line on Teacher Education for Professional and Technological Education of the Graduate Program in Professional and Technological Education at the Federal University of Santa Maria. The research aims to study women teachers in professional education in the courses of the Santa Maria Industrial Technical School (CTISM). Initially, a conceptual discussion about gender is presented, linked to the historical and socio-cultural context of the construction of symbology concerning the figure of the woman, aiming to understand the origin of the paradigms built around gender relations and the representative figure of the woman. The professional education approach takes place within the Brazilian historical context, covering the legal, curricular and training spheres. This is a case study using the qualitative method, based on content analysis (BARDIN, 2016) of the data collected through a questionnaire, applied to teachers of professional education at CTISM. To infer about perceptions regarding gender relations, the presence and performance of women teachers in professional education, as well as the influence of gender in the construction of teacher identity. The results of this study demonstrate that the gender discussion is marked by the subjects’ place of speech, influenced by symbolic and social constructions, built by agents and institutions within a society constituted on the oppressive roots represented by patriarchy-racism-capitalism. The social contribution of this work consists in the search for a more just and egalitarian society since it proposes to analyze the real gender relations within an environment of professional education culturally belonging to and for men.