GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN EDUCATION: an experience with PARFOR academics in a municipality in Pará

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Lana Claudia Macedo da
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Lopes, João Luiz da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Exitus
• Texto Completo: https://portaldeperiodicos.ufopa.edu.br/index.php/revistaexitus/article/view/1696
• topic: Gênero. Sexualidade. Educação na Amazônia. PARFOR.

The article aims to understand the conception and approach of gender and sexuality in education, from the perspective of students of the Teacher Training Program/PARFOR, based on an experience in the municipality of Igarapé Miri in Pará. The stimulus to carry out this study is due to the pioneering spirit of including this theme as a Curriculum Component in the Pedagogy Course at UEPA. As theoretical support, authors were used, such as: Foucault (1988), Louro (2007, 2011), Scott (1995), Bassalo (2010), César (2009), Barroso e Silva (2021) etcetera. The methodological procedure consists of a qualitative approach, using the semi-structured questionnaire as an instrument. The research was conducted with 29 academic people. The collected data indicate that the reflection on gender and sexuality in education constitutes a challenge, because nowadays the topic has been a result of political and religious dispute, restricting free thinking and the formation of critical and reflective citizens. Furthermore, the study points out the need for training of educators and carrying out pedagogical activities addressing the topic, since only six academics stated that the school promotes debate. The research also shows a certain lack of knowledge of the concepts on the part of the interlocutors, although is unanimous the relevance of the theme for the construction of a space for debate and propagation of scientific knowledge and research, to problematize and deconstruct social and religious taboos.