Resumen

LEITE, Vanessa Jorge. The capture of children and adolescents: reflecting on public controversies involving gender and sexuality in education policies. Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2019, vol.24, n.52, pp.11-30.  Epub 09-Ene-2020. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/serie-estudos.v20i52.1354.

Schools have been permanent loci of confrontations between different sexuality- and gender-related conceptions and values. Such confrontations show (1) in the elaboration of education policy norms; (2) in public controversies involving gender and sexuality and education policies; (3) in daily school life and in educators’ daily work, as well as in conflicts over the school curricula. In recent years, a number of controversies have developed over both the school environment, and sexuality and gender expressions of children and youth. This article addresses the moral panic developed around the School Without Homophobia Project (ESH), dubbed “gay kit” by its detractors, from 2011 on - so as to enable us to reflect on the strategic role of such controversy to the developments in education policy in Brazil in recent years. The ESH episode has probably contributed to the strengthening of other projects and themes closely linked to a “conservative” agenda in Brazil. We have tracked how the phrase “gender ideology” was used in debates over education plans around the country. More recently, in the 2018 presidential elections, the “gay kit” was one of the president-elect campaign’s main themes. What all such controversies have in common are the confrontation between different sexuality - and gender-related moralities and the alleged need to protect children and adolescents.

Palabras clave : school without homophobia; gender and sexuality; childhood and adolescence.

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