Docentes, relações de gênero e sexualidades: desdobramentos nas práticas pedagógicas

Abstract

Themes related to gender and sexuality issues are present in the school, forming subjects and going through the teaching profession all the time. The coexistence with the need to discuss these themes brought me to this work. As teacher of science and biology, rose up in me the desire to listen to teachers from other areas and contents in other segments of public education. This research sought to understand how has it given an approach to the themes of gender and sexualities; how has a teaching practice conceived this theme; and how have issues been discussed in the researched schools. To do this, I used an initial survey, which helped me to define the schools-field and the participants for the second stage of the research, consisting in focus group meetings and individual interviews. To analyze the answers of the initial survey and the speeches, I assumed the poststructuralist perspective of research; which means that I have tried to work with the emergency conditions of speeches, considering that we are their producers and their products. Assuming the social importance of the school as a producer of specific knowledge in the construction of knowledge by teachers and students, I sought to understand, through the answers to the surveys and conversations, that in the three municipal schools of Juiz de Fora that received the research, the themes are discussed individually, based on the initiative and decision of each teacher. The schools do not have an agenda of projects that privilege this discussion and acts of prejudice and discrimination occur in the daily life of the school and can rise from students or teachers; and that the themes are not yet recognized as relevant issues by the whole school, due to the influence of conservative movements that work to avoid such discussions in classrooms and other spaces of the school. This work is temporarily concluded with the proposal to continue listening to the actors and actresses that make up the school so that they can better understand the themes of gender and sexuality and also make their pedagogical practices better known.