Reconhecer-se para ensinar: memórias de formação e a literatura infantil por uma educação antissexista

Abstract

The focus of this Final Paper is on dialoguing with children's literature to understand what it means to be a woman, through the literary artifact “Coisa de menina” (Girl's Thing) (2016) by the author Pri Ferrari. In this sense, my question is: How can the multiple possibilities of “being a woman” contribute to and enrich the dialog about gender issues with children through children's literature and enrich my future teaching career? For a possible answer to the guiding question, my general objective is to reflect on how teaching can be enhanced by the multiple ways of being a woman when working with children's literature. This leads to the following specific objectives: To relate sexist aspects present in my experience that, in common sense, define what it is to “be a woman”; To relate sexist aspects present in my experience that, in common sense, define what it is to “be a woman”; To identify how my academic training in Pedagogy puts such aspects into suspension and contributes to my future professional performance; and To present some didactic-pedagogical guidelines for the education of girls and boys, based on Children's Literature, in particular, through the analysis of the book “Coisa de menina”, by Pri Ferrari (2016). The methodological procedures include autobiographical research, since brief clippings of my memories are presented throughout the work. I used a qualitative exploratory approach, seeking to get closer to the problem in question and reflect on the use of children's literature books, using textual analysis of the literary artifact as a procedure, using a previously prepared script. From this perspective, the reflections undertaken contributed to my process of humanization, since through them I was able to reflect on how I came to (re)know myself as a woman and how this enriches my work in teaching, understanding the importance of talking about gender issues with children as a way of combating the sexism present in our society.