GENDER RELATIONSHIPS IN YOUTH AND ADULT EDUCATION AND TEACHER TRAINING: AN ALTERNATIVE STUDY

Résumé

The different issues related to gender issues challenge the school in its objective of training people who are sensitive and open to living with diversity. Such a demand becomes more urgent when dealing with Youth and Adult Education. With this study, we sought to investigate how the continuing education of teachers who work in basic education provides knowledge capable of questioning the (re)knowledge of 20 female students in situations of social vulnerability, so that teaching actions contribute to making them more aware of gender roles so that they produce a reflective knowledge capable of detecting situations of domestic violence in the environment in which they are inserted. Therefore, this is a qualitative study of narrative literature review and consists of an analysis of the literature published in books and articles in printed and electronic journals. The study is structured in two sections: in the first, we present an approach to the theoretical framework that supports the research to discuss gender as a constitutive element of social relations. In the second section we present discussions based mainly on the narratives of EJA graduates. Thus, we understand that control over women's bodies is processed naturally, therefore, as a cultural action in which gender roles are stereotyped and forged to meet socially constructed demands of what men and women can or cannot do to maintain the social order.