Abstract

SCHINDHELM, Virginia Georg  and  EVANGELISTA, Marcia Nico. Infant sexuality, gender and an oncoming education. Rev. Educ. Questão [online]. 2013, vol.45, n.31, pp.131-153. ISSN 1981-1802.  https://doi.org/10.5238/2013v45n310131.

This article discourses about the challenge of working gender and sexuality themes in infant education as social constructions which are controversies by the multiplicity of sights, beliefs, taboos, interdictions and values of those who are inserted in school. Our aim is to (1) discourse with Benjamin and studious of infant, gender and sexuality; (2) participate on the routine of two schools in Rio de Janeiro State where the subjects of the stories narrate their experiences; (3) register and raise empiric data for a research of doctoral degree. The results (1) reveal educators’ hiding and silencing about these themes; (2) show difficult experiences which take educators to face new situations causing unusual situations and decisions in an uncertain, peculiar and conflict values; 3) show speaking carried by anxiety and duress about the sexual matter; (4) reveal the educating team’s (un)knowing experience about children’s sexuality.

Keywords : Infant Education; Gender and Sexuality; Benjamin‘s Thesis.

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