Abstract

SANTOS, Sandro Vinicius Sales. Gender socialization in the early childhood education: continuities and ruptures lived by children in the family, in the church and school. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2017, vol.42, n.3, pp.731-750. ISSN 1984-6444.  https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644428325.

The article analyzes the gender socialization experienced by five year old children within a school of early childhood education. Based on a theoretical framework that articulates gender studies and childhood studies we discuss the tensions and ambiguities in the different gender socialization processes experienced by boys and girls within a school of early childhood education located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The results were derived from data produced by an ethnographic study, whi ch applied participant observation with the support of photographic records and fieldnotes. We carried out interviews with some of the children and adults from the school and family. Particularly, with the children, we guided an interview combined with drawing, which were also analyzed. We described and analyzed the ambiguities and contro versies that govern this complex and multifaceted process of gender socialization in early childhood education are. In addition to the pro cesses of gender socialization experienced by children in the interaction with their peers and the teachers of their school, we observed other so cialization processes originated/rooted (in) from different institutions (such as the family and religious institutions) crossing throughout the gender socialization processes in the school.

Keywords : Early childhood Education; Gender Socialization; Children’s.

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