A homofobia contra o professor “primário” do sexo masculino

Abstract

Abstract: This paper present a comparative study about the male teacher who works in the elementary public education in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil and in Aveiro - Portugal. We intended, fundamentally, to investigate the reasons and consequences of teachers’ professional choice who are engaged in area typically associated to women, this association is so strong that these teachers looks like a “foreign body” in quotidian of “elementary” public schools. We use the quantitative and qualitative research methodology according to a multimodal and mixed research model that converges such approaches taking advantage of their advantages, questionnaires were applied and narrative interviews were conducted. The research is based on a sample of 209 public school teachers who previously answered a questionnaire (objective and subjective), 60 from the Aveiro District (Portugal) and 149 from the Rio de Janeiro State (Brazil), as well as in interviews with six teachers chosen at random, 3 teachers in Brazil and 3 in Portugal with different age groups. They are men who are at school rethinking the men and women roles in the professions. Because of this they suffer lots of discriminations, one of these discrimination is the homophobia against male teachers.