Abstract

REYBET, Carmen. The school under the magnifying glass: Preview of an ethnographic study with gender approach. Aljaba [online]. 2013, vol.17, pp.95-112. ISSN 1669-5704.

In this article I report some of the partial results of a feminist ethnographic investigation localized in an elementary public school inhabited by male and female children from "poor" sectors of a sub-area of the west zone of the City of Neuquén. As a female researcher, the feminist ethnographic perspective allows me to identify, describe, analyze and interpret the ways in witch gender relations are produced and reproduced in a school setting. In this presentation I focus on one part of the evidences and arguments built throughout the field work, that recognizes as a main source the "official" school documentation and the execution of focus groups with early childhood students. The work made thus far, allows corroborating the importance of continuing with the deep study of the links between the school "inside" and "outside", a central way for the interpretation of the roles and the construction of the imaginaries differentiated by sexes.

Keywords : Ethnography; School; Gender; childhood.