Times and spaces of female teaching: representations on teachers in childhood education

Authors

  • Lourdes Helena Dummer Venzke IF Sul-rio-grandense
  • Jane Felipe Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Keywords:

teaching, representations on teachers, childhood education

Abstract

This paper problematizes the representations on teachers in childhood education in the city of Pelotas/RS, between the 1940s and 1960s, expressed in the documents of the first private or public institutions which had vacancies for children. In the researched document sources, the representations of the teacher are coupled up with the religious discourse (Catholic), when the vocation and the mission of such professional are highlighted. Among the representations, we would like to mention the different ways of being a teacher: the teacher is someone to correct a child’s “defect” as well as his/her family, the teacher as a health educator and good fairy. At the same time in which the childhood educator is thought to be something inherent from the female gender, a continuous professionalization is demanded. Such representations intertwine and are mixed to each other, playing, an important role to guide the teachers, the children and the families, establishing, somehow, the inseparability between teaching and motherhood.

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Author Biographies

Lourdes Helena Dummer Venzke, IF Sul-rio-grandense

Doutora em Educação pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); Pedagoga do Campus Pelotas - Visconde da Graça do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Sul-rio-grandense (IF Sul)

Jane Felipe, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutora em Educação pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) com Pós-doutorado pela Universidad de Barcelona; Professora Adjunta da FACED/UFRGS, integrante do GEERGE - Grupo de Estudos de Educação e Relações de Gênero - e do GEIN - Grupo de Estudos em Educação Infantil. Possui várias publicações na área de infância, gênero e sexualidade.

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Published

2013-02-15

How to Cite

Dummer Venzke, L. H., & Felipe, J. (2013). Times and spaces of female teaching: representations on teachers in childhood education. Educação, 36(1). Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/faced/article/view/9590

Issue

Vol. 36 No. 1 (2013): Dossier - Human Rights Education: different approaches and directions in negotiation

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Other Topics

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