Brincadeiras persistentes, desigualdades de gênero presentes: relações de gênero na educação profissional, uma análise a partir da percepção de estudantes do IFPR – Campus Curitiba

Abstract

Based on the educational reality of the Instituto Federal do Paraná (IFPR), this master’s degree dissertation aims to understand how gender relations work in a professional education environment. The school – where the social and economic relations take place – is constantly changing, which indicates many challenges to the educational process. The potential of the school to establish itself as a privileged locus, with power to make changes, resides in these spaces, as well as the possibility of being a place where inequalities are often manifested, especially considering the discussion proposed by this study: gender inequalities. The development of this research is sought in these places. Intending to reach a dialogue between gender and technological professional education, we consider the discussion about formal education, directing our analysis particularly to the professional and technical high school. We resorted to their Curriculum Directives, which points that professional education is, first of all, education. Therefore, this type of education is ruled by the principles brought by the Federal Constitution and the Law of Directives and Bases of National Education. Considering this context, our intention is to analyse how matters of gender take place at the daily school routine, and to understand, from the perception of the students registered in Mechanical Technician and Photographic Processes Technician, if they identify gender inequalities in their educational journey. As our methodological path, we point a qualitative approach as reference. In addition to our quest for theoretical references that could guide the discussion about gender relations and education, we used semi-structured interviews as a searching technique. The interviews were applied to twenty four (24) students from the mentioned classes; twelve (12) from each class and twelve (12) of each gender. The interviewees were randomly chosen and according to their interest to participate in the study, preserving an equal division between women and men. The results of the study show that the matters of gender are tightly interwoven to the IFPR educational process. These issues are naturalized and not questioned, they appear in the form of jokes, leaving the deceiving impression that gender inequalities do not exist in those environments.