A Questão do Gênero nas Brincadeiras Infantis: um Estudo de Caso.

This paper aims to examine how children's play can structure the socially defined roles in relation to the notion of gender within the school context. The theoretical and methodological assumptions used in this study cover the practice research funded by the Historic-Cultural Theory and Post-Structuralist Perspective. Among the results found, there is the thought of some research subjects, namely teachers and teaching staff of an Institution of Early Childhood Education, about gender, sometimes taken as a synonym for sex, or as a grammatical classification between female and male. On the other hand, there is also the understanding of gender as a social construction. As for plays, there was no consensus among the interviewees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]