Homens pedagogos: o trabalho docente na educação infantil

Abstract

This text deals with the work developed throughout the Pedagogy course of the Federal University of Goiás in the discipline TCC (Course Completion Work) during the year 2019, plus observations after the approval of the master's project. From the school experience, the work experience in Early Childhood Education, the observations and readings of academic texts that discusses the theme on the issue of gender in Early Childhood Education and Elementary School I, it is based on the assumption of analyzing and reflecting the teaching practice of the male teacher and his nuances understanding how this professional is perceived in the school community. The research was oriented from the experience itself, observing the low representativeness of men in early childhood education, which aroused some concerns: Why do we find so few pedagogues in the classrooms? What is behind this absence, since in the educational institutions there is the presence of so many male students? So, in possession of these questions, in search of specialized literature and documentary research, we went in search of understanding why there is the feminization of early childhood education and how this reverberates in teaching work. For this, we used authors such as: Marx (1984), Hobsbawm (1991), Sayão (2005). Ariès (2014), Aranha (2006) and Cambi (1999). Thus, we understand that there are still gaps about the dimension of the pedagogue man and his work in Early Childhood Education and Elementary School I. Our text is added to other works that aim to understand the new gender configurations of the teaching work, as well as the prejudice involved in this profession.