Abstract

SAMAGAIO, Florbela. The portuguese language book of the 1st Cycle of Basic Education: concerns about gender inequality in school. Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2018, vol.23, n.48, pp.35-60. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/serie-estudos.v23i48.1120.

The main objective of this article is to alert to the gender inequality that may be present in school textbooks. This awareness of the issue is relevant because, in Portugal, there is a relatively strong legislative and regulatory mechanism which seeks to prevent this type of situation. However, in our view, it The main objective of this article is to alert to the gender inequality that may be present in school textbooks. This awareness of the issue is relevant because, in Portugal, there is a relatively strong legislative and regulatory mechanism which seeks to prevent this type of situation. However, in our view, it will not be enough. In this sense, the article proposes as pedagogical paradigm appropriate to the school of modern society the paradigm of the teacher as a reflexive, critical and problematizing professional, being this the main interlocutor of the official pedagogical discourse with the children. The article presents an analysis of the contents of the Manual of Portuguese Language of the 4th year of primary school education, inspired by the methodology proposed by several authors, among them Eugénio Brandão in the 1970s in Portugal, from which one can verify the imbalance in the transmission of images in the feminine and masculine, as well as the suggestion of creation of symbolic territories of meanings based on gender stereotypes. The analysis is carried out at the level of the images and at the level of the texts and concludes that there is a significant gender inequality in said study material. The central issue is that textbooks integrate children's school and daily life and may lead to the crystallization of preconceived ideas about gender through the process of socialization.

Keywords : reflective teacher; gender inequality; school handbook.

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