Abstract

BARREIRO, Alex  and  MARTINS, Fernando Henrique. Bases and legal foundations for the discussion of gender and sexuality in the classroom. LTP [online]. 2016, vol.34, n.68, pp.93-106. ISSN 2317-0972.  https://doi.org/10.5965/0102-387Xv34n6820160106.

This article is the result of a series of studies carried out in several documents, which include the Brazilian Guidelines and Standards of Education, the resolutions issued by the National Board of Education; the Brazilian Legislation on Education and also the Federal Constitution, granting bases and legal foundations for discussions of gender and sexuality to be developed by teachers through different pedagogical activities and proposals. Based on cultural criticism and legislation produced in the last decades in the country, our objective is to question recent decisions taken by the Brazilian city councils, withdrawing and, in some cases, prohibiting discussions of gender and sexuality from taking place in the scope of public education. Resorting to poststructuralist theories and studies, we highlight the fact that the insertion of gender and sexuality discussions in schools can be understood as important educational measures for the deconstruction of the coloniality of the being and of the knowledge.

Keywords : Gender; Sexuality; Education; Postcolonialism.

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