Women's educational processes in undergraduate teacher training courses at IFC: gender relations and education
Initial Teacher Education; Gender; Female Students
This research aimed to analyze how gender relations impact women's experiences in the educational processes of the undergraduate teacher training courses at Instituto Federal Catarinense. It is a qualitative study with an analytical, descriptive, and interpretative approach (CRESWELL, 2010). Twelve students from five different undergraduate courses at IFC participated in the research. We used an online semi-structured questionnaire as a data collection tool, through the Google Forms platform. The data, in turn, were analyzed using content analysis (BARDIN, 2016; FRANCO, 2008). It was possible to observe that the main impacts of gender relations on the educational processes of the students refer to an overload of activities, such as balancing studies with paid work, domestic work, and childcare. The results and discussions point to the need for the articulation of institutional policies and actions that consider the experiences of these women both within and outside the IFC space throughout their educational processes.