A internalização de gênero feminino na criança a partir das canções cantadas na educação infantil

Abstract

The present study approaches the construction of the female gender at school. Through the internalization of the values mediated by the songs sung in the kindergarten, we aim to understand the construction of the female gender in the children. We aim, specifically, to verify the gender prejudice, stereotypes, and stigmas construction in the school subject – children subscribed in the kindergarten. The theoretical and methodological tools used linked the Marxist perspective of the cultural studies to the socio-historical-interactionists theories of the subject. We try to answer the following questions: How are the processes of gender inequality constituted at school? How the processes of internalization constitute in the children prejudice, stereotypes, an stigmas through the culture produced and reproduced at school? The results – based on the theoretical referential explored in the study, in semi-structured interview with the teachers of the kindergarten, in the analyses of the songs sung in the classrooms – indicate that, despite the subject overcome along its lives internalizations produced in the childhood through the cultural products that reproduce prejudice, stereotypes and stigmas, the school cannot deny itself the chance to make the auto-critic about the values that produces in the children when explores the ones that select to the formation of its curriculum. It´s necessary, although, to operate a process of regulation and social control of the contents mediated by the cultural products explored in the school curriculums of the daycare and kindergarten in the country and make real the critical spirit when planning activities.