GENDER IN THE PEDAGOGY FORMATION: CONCEPTIONS OF FUTURE TEACHERS AS OF FIVE CONCEPTS

Abstract

This article aimed to present the conceptions of undergraduate students in Pedagogy, from
a public university in São Paulo, about the concept of gender, relating the concepts evidenced in their
conceptions with the production of feminist gender literature. For such, it explores results obtained from
an open questionnaire, using the technique of Content Analysis (CA). The participant sample consisted
of 165 subjects (N=165), enrolled in the initial and final years of the course, which set the research, which
attributed to the investigation the cross-sectional research design. It is noteworthy that the conceptions of the undergraduate students about the concept of gender were distributed in five main concepts: in
conception 1) polysemic; 2) biologizing and religious; 3) functionalist; 4) identity; and 5) associated with
sexuality. It is concluded that the participants do not have a formation in gender based on the scientific
knowledge coming from the productions of the feminist gender literature, with the exception of those
who understand gender in the identitarian and functionalist perspectives, but that show themselves in
fragile notions and without the evocation of a certain theory or author of the literature.