WOMEN AND INTELLECTUAL PERFORMANCE: a topic for teacher training with the History of Education

Abstract

The investment of this study is to reflect on the resistance of the History of Education as an area of ​​Fundamentals inserted in the Field of Education, in the scope of Human Sciences. Thus, the history of the constitution of the area and its current configuration is highlighted, debating about its importance as a training knowledge for teachers of Licentiate and Pedagogy courses. Specifically, by pointing out the current themes in their historical perspectives, concerning the problems of Education in the country, such as ethnic, racial, social, political, or gender issues, it is intended to explore the contributions of historiographical studies of education to the debate about the presence and role of women in public, political, intellectual life and in the exercise of teaching over the last decades of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In this sense, the categories of intellectuals and gender made it possible to understand how women were inserted in the intellectual spaces of the period and how this presence took place in places still marked by the male figure. Therefore, a survey of research in the area of ​​History of Education was carried out on women acting as intellectuals between the years 2018 to 2022. At first, we sought to identify dissertations and theses defended in the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Paraíba (PPGE-UFPB), with the intention of finding out how local research has dealt with the topic. In the second moment, we investigated how the theme has been socialized by researchers in one of the main academic events at the national level: Brazilian Congress of the History of Education (CBHE). Finally, we sought to identify articles in collections and specialized magazines with the intention of examining the proposed theme. From this perspective, in order to understand the intellectual performance of women, it is necessary to observe the specificities of women's trajectories in the context of the literate and of political debates. One of these particularities is the strong connection they maintained with the educational universe of the time, because even with the plurality of ideas in favor of female emancipation, they pointed to education as a path and opportunity for social ascension. In addition, many of these women were also teachers. Therefore, it is also possible to identify them as intellectuals of education.