Educação e gênero : uma análise sobre a desconstrução de estereótipos no ensino de educação física no ensino fundamental

Abstract

This research aims to investigate how the practices and contents of games and games in Physical Education classes can create gender stereotypes, analyze how children occupy spaces during this class, the influences and repercussions of gender issues in the contents games, how the practices of Physical Education classes build and rebuild gender issues and how they affect the coexistence and learning of Elementary School students. The study was carried out at the Osmar Jose do Carmo Cabral Municipal School, located in the Osmar Cabral neighborhood, in the city of Cuiabá, capital of Mato Grosso, with students from 9 to 10 years of age enrolled in the 4th grade class of Elementary School. of the morning period, from a qualitative approach with the use of research instruments: script of observations of Physical Education classes, record of filming, images and audios, didactic sequences and focus group, with the researcher being a participant observer. This study has the contribution of students from the school, aged 9 to 10 years, with participation in games and games and also in discussions about gender separation in Physical Education activities. The children's participation was authorized by their guardians. These show, in most activities, behaviors that reinforce the separation by gender in games and the appropriation of conventional games as masculine or feminine, such as that ball games belong to boys and games with dolls belong to girls. They are also reflective and willing to rethink stereotypes between genders, since they still reproduce discourses that attribute characteristics of strength and superiority to the male universe and obedience and good behavior to the female universe.