Quem disse que não é coisa de menina: provocações acerca das relações de gênero no ensino técnico em agropecuária do IFRS – Câmpus Bento Gonçalves

Abstract

This thesis discusses gender relations in a field that was, and still is, considered to be "predominantly" male: in the area of Technical Agriculture, aiming to identify how teachers of the Technical Course in Agriculture IFRS - Campus Bento Gonçalves understand gender relations that are established between the male students and the female students during the process of teaching and learning. The methodological process had the document analysis on the books of Minutes of the Advisory Council and the School Cooperative and Students’ Papers of the College of Viticulture and Enology; conducting semi-structured interviews and conducting four discussion groups of which three will be analyzed in this study. Teachers who work in the Technical Course in Agriculture IFRS - Campus Bento Gonçalves and have training in the technical area were part of the discussion groups. Therefore, from 87 campus teachers, 12 participated in this study, focusing on the central issue of how to teach young people the technical course in agriculture taking into account the technical training of those who teach the course. The results indicate that education continues sexist in the way technical education is viewed. A naturalized view of the genres, in which girls/women are described as thoughtful, organized and concentrated, in an opposite relation to the understanding that boys/men are strong, disorganized, certain, confirms in a way that the female, despite the courage to do this in these schools, should have its place because it is different and this difference ends discrediting, devaluing and fading the creative force and the power of learning they have. On the other hand, by allowing the admission of the first female student in 1959, the institution aroused the curiosity about other women to come to study in this technical school, opening paths and allowing, through individual and collective memories evoked in this thesis my view to become less rigid about the story windows that open to gender relations.