Limites na construção de uma identidade política: condicionantes de gênero e de classe sobre o trabalho docente na educação infantil

Abstract

This study aims at presenting a set of considerations about the investigation of political identity of teachers of children for the municipal schools of Goiânia. The analysis shows a great process of feminization in the work of teaching children. It demonstrates how the practice is identified with house working and motherhood, which are inherent to the historical social role fulfilled by women. It also reveals a process of loss of professionalization due to the claim of “feminine vocation”. The activity is devalued when the relation between care and education that females have to children is naturalized, reproducing the division between reproduction and production. These elements are constituted as conditioners that difficult the elaboration of a political identity, by these workers, linked to the working class interests.