Género e educação escolar análise das representações dos papéis de género nos livros didácticos do ensino primário em Moçambique

Abstract

This paper seeks to reflect on the structural reproduction of gender inequalities in Mozambique. Accordingly, we focus our attention on education school as an institution for the training of individuals, and seek it, analyze how the textbooks of primary education in Mozambique represent gender roles, and to assess whether these question papers or reproduce unequal socially acceptable for men and women. We focused this work a qualitative methodology, which through content analysis; we analyze the images, it is, pictures and textual passages twenty-one (21) textbooks of primary Mozambique. And to their analysis, we created a database of the computer program for qualitative data analysis, NVivo 7, where we create and grouped the thematic issues of the books inherent gender roles in categories and subcategories, which served as a model for analysis observation of the contents analyzed. For the analysis of our data, we used the gender as an analytical category brought by Scott (1995) that is based on the assumption according to which the differences between men and women (gender) are beyond the biological, but are a form of state-cultural constructions entirely social creation of ideas about appropriate roles for men and women. Where masculinity and femininity are thus behaviors or ways of doing things for men and women respectively, as defined by the society in which it is inserted and seized by age and gender and not their abilities. After the analysis of the textbooks, we found that gender roles are represented differently and unequally, where man is represented as the provider and family man (facing public sphere) and woman as homemaker and educator (facing the private sphere). What reaffirms the matrix bipolar "male" and "female" through a sexualization of spaces and activities where there is a subordination of women relative to men. What contributes to the structural reproduction of gender inequalities in Mozambique.