Author(s): Maria Cristina Lopes de Almeida Amazonas | Albenise de Oliveira Lima | Danielle de Fátima da Cunha Cavalcanti de Siqueira | Gabriela Ferreira de Arruda
Journal: Revista Interamericana de Psicología
ISSN 0034-9690
Volume: 42;
Issue: 002;
Start page: 236;
Date: 2008;
Original page
ABSTRACT
The research is about representation of family implicit in the didactic material used by children from first to fourth grades of private schools in the center zone of Recife city. The sample was chosen at random. A hundred and eight didactical and paradidactic books were submitted to Documental Content Analysis. The results indicate that these materials privilege a traditional model of family. The feminine and masculine roles are considered as essential and natural; power relations are oriented by the supremacy of the masculine gender over the feminine one and occur vertically according to age. Men, women and children are presented in an ideal model, favoring the exclusion of all other possibilities of being a subject.
Journal: Revista Interamericana de Psicología
ISSN 0034-9690
Volume: 42;
Issue: 002;
Start page: 236;
Date: 2008;
Original page
ABSTRACT
The research is about representation of family implicit in the didactic material used by children from first to fourth grades of private schools in the center zone of Recife city. The sample was chosen at random. A hundred and eight didactical and paradidactic books were submitted to Documental Content Analysis. The results indicate that these materials privilege a traditional model of family. The feminine and masculine roles are considered as essential and natural; power relations are oriented by the supremacy of the masculine gender over the feminine one and occur vertically according to age. Men, women and children are presented in an ideal model, favoring the exclusion of all other possibilities of being a subject.
