TEACHER TRAINING IN GENDER AND CRITICISM OF PATRIARCHY: SUBORDINATION AND RESISTANCE OF FEMALE TEACHERS

Abstract

This article reflects on the possible influences from the course Gender and Diversity at School (GDE) in the understanding by professors who works at elementary school on the different ways of being a woman and being a teacher, from the point of view of gender relations. The course was offered in 2009 by the Paulista State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP), campus of Rio Claro. From the reports of these women, obtained through semi-structured interviews, it was possible to observe a movement of reproduction of the traditional socializing processes, and at the same time, of resistance and denunciation of the influence of the patriarchal society in the production of different forms of being a woman and of being a teacher. The contradiction present in these reports demonstrates the innovative nature of courses aimed at the training of female teachers in gender, as well as on the aspects that still need to be thought and reviewed.