DISPUTAS EM TORNO DAS QUESTÕES DE GÊNERO E SEXUALIDADE: UM ESTUDO SOBRE O PROCESSO DE APROVAÇÃO DO PLANO MUNICIPAL DE EDUCAÇÃO DE CAMPO GRANDE – PME (2015 – 2024)

Abstract

The present investigation is part of the research “Comparative analysis of national educational policies in the Americas: contexts, movements and the right to education” from the “History, Policies and Education” Research Line of the Graduate Program in Education - Master's Course at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. Its objective is to unveil the process of correlation of present social forces that imposed debates about gender and sexuality issues, during the construction of educational policy in the municipality of Campo Grande, capital of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, having as its initial landmark the process of construction and approval of the Municipal Education Plan (MEP) in alignment with the State Education Plan (SEP) and the National Education Plan (NEP 2014-2024). Given this, the specific objectives are to unveil which social forces are present in the process of building the epicenter of educational policy when the dispute for the right to education was strained between its expansion and restriction, as well as, through which strategies social actors and collectives organize themselves to transform their agenda into educational policy, in response to neoconservative interests. The methodological procedures were supported by bibliographic and documentary research, having as main source the educational legislation, as well as documents produced within the scope of organized civil society. It can be seen in the context that the School Without Party Organization and the Catholic Church emerge as the main private devices of hegemony that operate through the State bones, in line with the interests of the Evangelical Parliamentary Front, an important political bloc in the Federal Legislative, with a view to consolidating conservative moral agenda, particularly with regard to the theme of sexual and gender diversity. This agenda gains centrality in the municipality during the approval process of the Municipal Education Plan - MEP (2015 - 2024), with emphasis on this historic moment for the work of the Catholic Church, which allies itself with the Municipal Parliament in the defense of its education project, what does not happen without the due resistance of social collectives in defense of education, a counter-hegemonic movement that guarantees the permanence of part of the devices focused on the theme of gender and sexuality in the final approved text. Such elaboration was confronted with the educational policy agenda elaborated in the perspective of expanding the right to municipal education with a view to school, public, democratic, secular, diverse and socially referenced. In the municipality of Campo Grande, the dispute for an education project has extended beyond the federally aligned planning and remains at times latent, at times more manifest, promoting tensions in the materiality of educational policy by the State at the local level.