O brincar na educação infantil e relação de gênero: o gênero influencia nas brincadeiras?

Abstract

The present academic work is a research and pedagogical intervention project, whose objective is to generate a debate based on playing house and football, creating a gender discussion related to early childhood education. This investigation was performed with students aged between 5 and 6 years old and their respective teachers, at a public early childhood institution in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, and seeks to identify what teachers understand about the influence of playing on the process of construction of gender identity of the children. It is also intended to create an opportunity to encourage a debate on the theme of gender with the teachers of the mentioned institution. This theme was chosen inspired in requests from parents who frequently ask the teachers not to let boys play with dolls, and/or girls play ball to avoid the risk of interfering in their sexual orientation by playing such games. Considering these appeals, I found this research work pertinent and necessary when I realized that some teachers act with the same thinking of this parents, separating dolls for girls and balls for boys. The methodology consists of interviewing children and teachers about the subject; observe children in moments of free play; provide better coexistence between girls and boys; propose interventions in pedagogical practice seeking a better interaction between gender relations and childhood.