DIVERSIDADE E EXPERIÊNCIA: UMA INVESTIGAÇÃO SOBRE PROFESSORES HOMOSSEXUAIS E SUAS VIVÊNCIAS NO ESPAÇO ESCOLAR

Abstract

This master's dissertation in Education aimed to analyze, through the experiences of homosexual teachers, how gender relations, gender identity and sexuality are expressed in school spaces, through discriminatory experiences or not. Being initiated by mapping the clipping of a state of knowledge of the theme inherent to homosexuality and its relationship with research in Education, in which we seek to understand how trends, evidence or silences in academic research on homosexuality are configured. So that there was the possibility of questioning about how the concepts of gender, gender identity and sexuality are formed and propagated by the social environment and how they are operating within the school, thus problematizing the stance of hiding and silencing in the face of homosexuality in the search for guarantee of a “normal sexuality” present in school curricula. This is a qualitative study, with a semi-structured interview data collection instrument, as the basis for a content analysis. Through the interviews, six categories of analysis are unveiled that address the experience of these homosexual teachers and their relationship with the school community, the differences in positions of public and private schools regarding issues pertinent to homosexual sexuality, the position of these teachers on gender, gender identity and sexuality as an integral part of content and problematization in the classroom, they also address the relationship with students and guardians and even reach the experience beyond the walls of the school space, as social subjects. We can conclude that the presence of a homosexual teacher presents the possibility of contact and dignification of differences, with the necessary attention to the training of teachers who understand the difference and diversity as content and that denotes the need to problematize gender as a social construction, gender identity as the realization and experience within the determinations of gender and sexuality as the plural affective relationship between social subjects; enabling these themes as essential content to foster reflections to enable the dignification of diversity.