BETWEEN EFFORTS AND RESISTANCE: REFLECTIONS ON GENDER AND SEXUALITIES IN A NORMAL COURSE SCHOOL IN DOWNTOWN FLUMINENSE
Keywords: Gender, Sexualities, Teacher Education; Teaching.
This study aims to reflect on gender and sexuality issues in a Normal Course school in Baixada Fluminense / RJ. The themes proposed for this work have been subject to severe criticism and stances from fundamentalist and conservative groups, but it is essential that the school space develop its work based on the diversity that emerges from life in society. In this sense, talking about the differences in a space for teacher training is necessary, since teaching produces experiences, knowledge, questions and enriches the school routine. Therefore, the initial and continuing training of teachers needs to dialogue with the issues that are increasingly effervescing on the school floor. This is a qualitative research with an exploratory-descriptive approach in education. It was held at a school in the Baixada Fluminense, a region marked by common socio-cultural characteristics. As a research methodology, we sought to hear, through a questionnaire, teachers from the Normal Course. I emphasize that in the period of the research the school was visited several times for observation, conversations with the different segments of the school and participation in the daily events held in the school routine. In this research, gender studies were structured in a post-structuralist perspective. The dialogues theoretically followed the studies of Guacira Lopes Louro, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault and Paulo Freire. The results obtained by the research point to an urgency in the debate of gender and sexualities in the school space with a view to valuing the differences between the subjects. Thus, it is clear that talking about gender and sexualities in the educational context are possibilities to understand inequalities structured in different areas and circulating in different social spheres.