Gender Scripts and Children’s Performances that Reverberate in the Context of Early Childhood Education

Based on Gender Studies and the Sociology of Childhood, this article seeks to understand and analyze the strategies that children establish to deal with the gender scripts addressed to them in everyday Early Childhood Education. The results of the analysis show that they seek more plural ways of liv...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: de Moraes, Jéssica Tairâne, Felipe, Jane
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2024
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repository:Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/132192
Online Access:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/132192
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Scripts de Gênero
Pesquisa com crianças
Infâncias
Educação Infantil
Performance
Scripts de Genre
Recherche avec des Enfants
Enfances
L’Éducation des Enfants
Gender Scripts
Research with Children
Childhoods
Child Education
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Summary:Based on Gender Studies and the Sociology of Childhood, this article seeks to understand and analyze the strategies that children establish to deal with the gender scripts addressed to them in everyday Early Childhood Education. The results of the analysis show that they seek more plural ways of living their experiences as girls and boys, even though they are educated based on binary concepts that try to impose a repeated control of children’s bodies. The research, of ethnographic inspiration, was developed based on participant observation with four-year-old children, in a public early childhood education school, in the Metropolitan Area of Porto Alegre/RS/Brazil.