Gênero e educação: a diversidade sexual no contexto escolar.

Abstract

This study aims to investigate how the issue of gender and sexual diversity are being worked in high school by the teachers, as well as demonstrate the relevance of the theme of integration into the high school curriculum. Thus, there will be a brief course in history, especially the gender term settings for some authors, as well as sexuality is socially constructed, then attempted to analyze the relationship of gender and sexuality in school curriculum, as social changes that have occurred over time. Considering such changes to school should enable the development of critical thinking and reflective of the students, as well as the denaturalization of prejudice. To this end, the work shows how gender settings are being worked at school and what students understand about it, therefore it was necessary to conduct interviews with school teachers, with the principal of the institution and with the high school students. We note with interviews made that prejudice and discrimination against homosexuals are present not only in society but also in the school environment, having thus a need for the institution to teach subjects related to sexuality in the classroom, to demystify this existing bias .