O homem na educação infantil : a busca de um lugar num espaço ainda feminino

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the role of men in early childhood education, reflecting on barriers and possibilities in this craft. Use as methodology the literature, presenting a reflection on different aspects of this issue. Initially, it covers the history of early childhood education permeating the performance of subject teachers this modality. It shows that initially the school teaching was essentially male. Discusses the historical process which made feminised education, questioning the reasons that led the man to move away from teacher role in this important stage of early childhood education. From statistical data shows the number of men in the teaching of young children, focusing on the Governador Valadares city / MG. Works binomial care-educate, highlighting the act of care as one of the milestones responsible for the existing prejudice about male job. Finally, we propose to rethink and deconstruct prejudiced and discriminatory basis that settles in our society about this job even minimally exercised by men.