Menino brinca de boneca e menina brinca de carrinho? Refletindo questões de gênero na formação continuada e na sala de aula de educação infantil

Abstract

To play, essential in the child education, should enable the full development of the children, contributing in the critical sense creation and for a fair society between men and women. The current study had as objectives: General: Reflect about gender and sexuality matters in the child education; Specifics: Plan pedagogical actions through the continuing education of teachers from SEMED and implement awareness actions along children regarding discriminatory attitudes, recognizing the toys as playful tools for beyond the gender distinctions. Three activities were applied with the children: Round of Conversation indentifying their relations with the toys and games, Reading and Discussion of childhood reading. Children’s relatives requested this activity would be stopped, so the project wasn’t finished. It has been checked evidences that the playful doing has been trough by prejudice influences related to a supposed association between sexual identity and spontaneity during the children’s playing.