"NÃO PODIA FAZER MAGISTÉRIO, ERA COISA DE FLORZINHA”: MASCULINIDADES DOCENTES NOS ANOS INICIAIS
Masculinities. Teaching. Genre. Identity. Sexuality
This work aims to reflect on the academic and professional trajectory of teachers, who identify with
the male gender, who work in the first segments of Basic Education, Early Childhood Education, and
in the Initial Years of the Itabuna-Ba Municipal Education Network. From intervention research, we
build knowledge of exchanges and experience with these teachers, we use the semi-structured
interview as a research technique, based on this exchange dialogue between the personal and the
professional, which gave rise to the project of intervention Masculinities, Gender, and Sexualities in
Early Childhood Education and Early Years, based on colonial knowledge and difference, so that it
was possible to guide managers and other members of the school team so that they were able to
understand human diversity inside and outside the school context. In this way, we identify how school
and society create barriers within teaching, which leads to a stereotyped creation of gender and
sexuality of these men who enter the teaching career. Thus, we reflect on how hegemonic masculinity,
represented by white, cis, and straight men tries to nullify the subordinate masculinities where they
place homosexuals, black bisexuals, and transsexuals, as they are a strong potential to represent what
it is to be a man