Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Anna Luiza Araújo Ramos Martins de  and  OLIVEIRA, Gustavo Gilson Sousa de. New attempts of moral control in Education: Conflicts on gender and sexuality in curriculum and teacher education. Educação. UNISINOS [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.1, pp.16-25. ISSN 2177-6210.  https://doi.org/10.4013/edu.2018.221.02.

Brazilian society has been experiencing an intense hegemonic clash over the conceptions of gender and sexuality articulated in the public policies of curriculum and teacher training. Conservative political and religious groups have settled an aggressive attack on what they call “gender ideology” in education. Analyzing the constitution of discourses promoting gender equality and sexual diversity in Brazilian educational policies over the last decades and the emergence of reactive (neo)conservative discourses in the current scenario, the text seeks to discuss the conditions of (im)possibility of this hegemonic confrontation. The analysis is developed in dialogue with post-structuralist education theories, and especially with Laclau and Mouffe’s Political Theory of Discourse. The paper points out that both the discursive poles engaged in the current conflict are contingent historical constructs, and that the debate in the field of education has been predominantly carried out from the common parameter of the policies of accommodation and strategic management of differences.

Keywords : Curriculum; Teachers Training; Gender.

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