This research investigates the meanings and senses of the speeches of a group of
children of the 3rd year of elementary school upon the profession and the genders in
the teaching, with the intention of analyzing through the children's speeches the
unfoldings of the gender issues in the educational work and in the teaching. The
children were my speakers and subjects in this work and their voices were my
research object and analysis. The discursive approach was the perspective adopted
in the investigation process. The instruments used in the collection of the data were
semi-structured interviews and the use of two photographic images adopted as
starting points of the dialogue with the children. The research was accomplished at a
school of the municipal public net of Ananindeua-PA, and in the educational staff of
this school, there were 19 female teachers and 08 male teachers working from the
1st to 4th years at the time of the investigation. The theoretical referential used as
contribution for the analysis of the data collected is based on Mikhail Bakhtin's
theories on the speech. In order to relate the children's voices with the social, cultural
and historical contexts lived by them, we used authors such as Aries, Perrot, Connell,
Carvalho, Louro. The analyses were organized in 05 thematic axis which emerged
from the children's speeches: 01 - The ideological speeches about the educational
profession and the historical definition of roles and functions for the sexes; 02 - The
meaning of the profession and its historical and cultural bonds with the maternity; 03
- Manhood and Femininity: The multiples senses attributed to the genders in the
teaching; 04 - Power relationships between adults and children and in the
educational practice; 05 - The exercise of the teaching and the affective
relationships. The children's speeches demonstrate a lot of continuities and also
ruptures with the roles which were historically built for men and women. The main
sense of the feminine teaching for the children is in the attention and patience and of
the masculine teaching it is in the authority. Their speeches also present a lot of
expectations and wishes for the teaching practice which overcomes binarisms and
polarities and which offer significant information so as we can (re)think the teaching.
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