Homens na educação infantil : uma revisão bibliográfica

Abstract

The aim of this study was to map and discuss national academic researchs between 2004-2014 about men in preschool teaching profession. Twelve works have be found, two of them were theses and ten were dissertations. These twelve works came from the northeast , southeast and south of the country. Because available time, only three of these works were listed for more detailed reading and analysis. For a better understanding of this study, as first step, seachered for the brasilian preschool constituition and after discussed the feminization of teaching, locating the preschool as professional field that was born as female field, defending the ideia that this is do to the inseparability between care and education in this step of basic education. The next step was to make the conceptualization and the historicizing of the central category of this study: gender relations. In sequence, wanted understand the concept of masculinity and it was concluded that is not possible refer to masculinity, but masculinities. Finally, was made description and analysis of the researchs and perceived the following repeated situations and considerations: 1)The taboo of child care, mainly, related to the care of the girl by men, linked to the fear of pedophilia; 2) The questions about masculinity of the teacher and the fear of homosexuality; 3) The crystallization of the sexual division of labor and 4) The discourse about maternity as forming teachers to preschool. It was found, too, great difficulties through which they pass men who "venture" into this field, considered feminine. They are treated as intruders; they are subjected to rites of passage, they have to prove much more than educational competence, they need to demonstrate that they are not threats to children's bodies; they are questioned in their masculinity and invaded their privacies, giving rise to many questions that are exposed in the final considerations .