Gênero e sexualidade no contexto atual: mapeando discussões no ENPEC e na ANPED Sul

Abstract

The society is formed by discourses, which are produced and reproduced by its interviewees, according to the historical importance. These discourses are stereotyped from the so-called biological determinisms, which fit, classify and differentiate subjects according to their anatomical and physiological characteristics. Therefore, the school as a social institution reproduces or produces stereotyped discourses and practices regarding gender and sexuality. This work sought to investigate how issues of gender and sexuality are being addressed in school spaces. The research also has a qualitative character in Education, being realized through documentary analysis in the annals of two events of the Education area, namely: IX, X and XI National Meeting of Research in Education in Sciences (ENPEC) and IX, X and XI Seminar on Research in Education of the Southern Region (ANPED SUL). From the results found in the analyzes, three categories emerged: i) School as a space for Gender and Sexuality Discussions; ii) School as reproducer of oppression; iii) Teaching staff conceptions about working with issues of gender and sexuality. We identify from the data that schools can be places of production and reproduction of stereotyped discourses and practices, but they constitute as institutions that can present significant potential to evidence and, from this, deconstruct the stereotypes through questioning, reflections and discussions relevant to the topic. It was also possible to show misunderstandings in the thematic approaches on the part of the teachers, being supported in their prejudices and stereotypes of gender and sexuality, that limit the work of the same one in the biological determinisms and in hygienist conceptions. Thus, major investigations and discussions pertaining to issues of gender and sexuality in school spaces become fundamental, as well as teacher trainings that work in the bias of the theme, with the aim of better preparing and training future teachers in the work with the different genres and sexualities emerged in the school context.