Representações de gênero em livros didáticos: imagens e seus sentidos

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze how gender representations are being conveyed in textbooks for the fourth year of elementary school. The study intends to compare male and female representations in images containing human figures present in educational materials addressed to countryside schools and city schools through the PNLD Campo and the PNLD respectively. The research‟s theoretical contribution relates the debate on social representations, from the studies of Serge Moscovici (2003, 2012), and questions proposed by the Gender Studies, in the perspective of Joan Scott (1994, 1995, 1998) and Guacira Lopes Louro (1997, 2007), among other researchers. It is considered that the textbook, a cultural and educational artifact, propagates, through its illustrations, knowledge of gender identities, roles, responsibilities and values of social actors in different social contexts. The research methodology was organized from a redefinition of Bauer and Gaskell‟s (2008) proposal of four methodological dimensions and Bardin's Content Analysis (1977). In addition, it took into consideration what Hall (2006) proposes on the importance of comparison. Research whose claim is to understand representations of gender identities can rely on methodologies for the establishment of comparative analyses. Important categories were articulated for analysis, based on PNLD Campo documents and the review of academic productions that discuss gender relations propagated by textbooks. This research points to significant results in relation to the proposed objectives. Gender representations contained in textbooks were problematized and compared, showing the permanence of stereotypes as well some re-significations, pointing to advances in the this representations.