Gênero e sexualidades na escola: como abordar essas questões?

Abstract

Debates about education, gender and sexualities cause discomfort and controversy not only in the school environment, but in society in general and have been the subject of polarization in recent years. Given this scenario, this article aims to reflect on how issues of gender and sexualities are addressed at school, if at all. through qualitative, exploratory research, guided by a bibliographic review. Initially, we discuss the role of the school as a social institution capable of promoting or breaking stereotypes that reinforce hierarchical relationships of gender inequality and sexual diversity. Next, we clarify the terms gender, gender identities, sex, sexualitie and body, since they are socially and historically constructed concepts, and when understood and used correctly, they allow us to explain social situations in a critical way, in addition to refuting the fallacy of “gender ideology”. In this context, we approach the “Freirean” conceptions of “culture of silence” and “conscious body” and “Foucauldian” concepts of control, surveillance and disciplining of bodies to conclude that the school reproduces dominant behaviors and discourses when the subject is gender and sexualities. Given this observation, “building” a school that celebrates diversity, that educates without segregating and avoiding differences, that is open to dialogue and listening, is an immense, complex, possible and necessary challenge