DOCÊNCIA E GÊNERO: UM ESTUDO SOBRE O PROFESSOR HOMEM NA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL DA REDE MUNICIPAL DE ENSINO DE RIO VERDE (GO).

Abstract

The present dissertat ion aims at invest igat ing and analyzing how municipal - run nursery school male teachers f rom Rio Verde, State of Goiás, are seen by the school community. The study intended to answer the following quest ions: are there many nursery male teachers in basic educat ion? How does a male teacher consist himself in a social space that has mainly female teachers? How do the students´ parents and coworkers see male teachers in nursery schools? For this study, it was invest igated the inst itut ions and the number of male and female teachers that work in municipal - run nursery schools of Rio Verde. I t can be assumed that acknowledgement of women in this f ield of work became a habitus. I t was possible to ident ify that male teacher ´s pract ice in nursery schools in Rio Verde is expressed by power relat ions that run through social and gender relat ions in social spaces. Moreover, male teachers in places historical ly considered women´s spaces maintain t radit ional mascul inity in teaching pract ice, as cultural habitus kept by symbolic violence. The discussion and theor izat ion of gender and teaching were based on Scot t (1995), Louro (2011) , Assunção (1996), Carvalho (1999) and Rosemberg (2001). Bourdieu´s concepts of habitus and symbol ic violence and Robert Connel´s studies (1995) of mascul inity were used in order to understand and give theoret ical support to the invest igat ion.