Diversidade sexual, sexualidade e educação: revendo o conceito de gênero no contexto escolar.

Abstract

This study deals with gender relations and the contributions of the teaching profession to the deconstruction of differences and prejudices about sexism in the classroom. The research aimed to analyze the conceptions of students and teachers of the State School of Elementary and Secondary Education Professor José Gonçalves de Queiroz City Sumé/PB in relation to gender and sexuality, with greater focus to the issue of diversity sexual and gender. The research methodology is the exploratory type, data collection was developed through questionnaires involving coordinator, teachers and students of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd year of high school in the form of Youth and Adult Education (EJA), a psychologist and professor of the Program Secondary Education Innovator (proEMI) and school professor José Gonçalves de Queiroz. Os survey results indicated that teachers understand the questionnaire participants on issues of gender and sexuality, but some of them show that there is still a gap between what is laid down in the National Curriculum Parameters and what actually happens in the school context. While it is intended that the issue be debated interdisiciplinar way, there is a need to train a more updated and contextualized vision to reality. Was identified another gap in schooling to deal with issues of gender, sexuality and diversity in school. As students, these considerations are issues related to sexuality naturally mostly but sometimes show contradictory opinion on the conduct of open questions in the questionnaire, leaking, lines, prejudices when their ideas as opposed to homosexuality. The results also showed that discrimination with regard to gender relations and sexuality in the school environment is still veiled in their daily.