Gender debate as a pedagogical practice: an analysis of academic productions on gender equality in schools between 2003 and 2014

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss a mapping of theses and dissertations produced during the period from 2003 to 2014 regarding teaching practices in fundamental education on gender equality, one of the transversal themes included in the National Curricular Parameters in the 90s. The objective was through academic productions to identify what teachers are doing about this theme in the classroom. The research corpus consists of a total of 08 publications related to gender work, education and teaching, with 02 theses and 06 dissertations. After analyzing the corpus, it is concluded that there is a limited number of academic productions, during the period studied on teaching practices regarding gender equality in elementary school, in addition to training without working on themes such as gender, religious orientation by part of the faculty, teachers' fear of being accused of boosting sexuality in girls and homosexuality in boys.