The importance of feminist education: a report of awareness in a 2nd year class of integrated high school at IFPA

Abstract

This article analyzes the results of educational practices in the context of feminism, based on the formative experiences obtained in the research project “Women's writing in Amazonian and Latin American literature”. The study emphasizes how feminist education, based on specific methods and content that address the reality and experiences of women from a gender perspective, contributes to expanding students' sociocultural repertoire, helping to develop their writing for the Enem exams. During the teaching-learning process, two awareness-raising actions were carried out that promoted critical and reflective action by students in deconstructing patriarchal culture and defending gender equality. The theoretical references are based on Simone de Beauvoir (2009), Françoise Vergès (2020) and Pierre Bourdieu (2017), which explore structural machismo and patriarchal society, highlighting how these structures relegated women to a position of inferiority in a society marked by phallocentrism and classist gender categories, and Hooks (2018) with regard to the importance of feminist education in the context teaching-learning.