Brincadeiras entre meninos e meninas na educação infantil sob a ótica das relações de gênero

Abstract

This final project, entitled "Boys' and Girls' Play in Early Childhood Education from the Perspective of Gender Relations," aimed to investigate how gender relations between children, and between adults and children, occur in the daily life of a Municipal Early Childhood Education School. We used gender as a category of analysis to understand the relationships between boys and girls in children's play in Early Childhood Education settings. This is a qualitative, ethnographic study, using observation as the data collection tool. The researcher's field notebook was used to record the observations. A bibliographical search was also conducted to support the reflections presented. During the observations, I realized that Early Childhood Education schools reproduce the gender relations present in society in their daily lives. Although children often transgress the boundaries imposed by adults, this demonstrates that other forms of coexistence are possible. But, generally speaking, school does not present itself as a plural space where discrimination is problematized and overcome, but rather as a space that generates and reproduces a sexist education.