TWO PERSPECTIVES ON MASCULINITIES IN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT: BRAZIL AND SPAIN

The school environment and the classroom space are places of intense production of different ways of being a man. We find in school a traffic of different meanings of manhood, attribute that runs between boys and girls. There are multiple questions on the content of masculinity. Increasingly talk about but masculinities in the plural. Train teachers and teachers in gender issues, it is a complex task that requires being attentive to what happens around us on a daily basis. The school is partly a reflection of the society we live in, but on the other is space and opportunity for learning changes that improve the social environment. It is necessary both to understanding the influence of families on gender issues, as the view of the subject domain of the humanities. Think a productive organization of these debates in the classroom is quite challenging, and at the same time very necessary. Text launches two perspectives on the theme of masculinities in the classroom, from two surveys, one in Brazil, one in Spain.