Gênero e docência: infantilização e feminização nas representações dos discentes do curso de pedagogia da Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Abstract

This research aims to identify, within the discourse of students in the education course of studies at the State University of Londrina, their representations in relation to gender in teaching. Therefore, it was necessary to understand the following aspects: the concepts related to representations of social imaginary, which constitutes the relationship between gender and education; issues of female teaching, with some parameter trends (cultural, social, gender and politics); concepts and issues of curriculum in the context of contemporaneity; and the representations that students of the education course of the State University of Londrina (UEL) have in relation to gender and teaching. To develop this study, qualitative approach was used as the research methodology, and its parameter was Discourse Analysis. Literature investigation, documental analysis and field research formed the set of investigative procedures, in order to retrieve the representation of students.. At the end of the study, we found that the students associated strongly teaching with aspects of infantilism and femininity. The results of the study also highlighted that the predominant presence of women in the education course of studies is not fortuitous, occasional. However, it is necessary to overcome the silence around female teaching and start discussing it related to Education curriculum. The main reason for that is our present understanding that the relation gender-teaching is a social construction permeated with the ideologies, values and power relations that make up the imaginary and social representations of a given society