Educação em sexualidade na escola: entre a normalização e a perspectiva dos direitos humanos

Abstract

This dissertation seeks to analyze the contemporaneous discourses and practices about education on sexuality that have the school as locus. It was examined the propositions in projects and public policies in education on this subject. It was chosen as a case study the course Gender and Diversity at School (GDS), given in the year of 2010, offered by the Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights at State University of Rio de Janeiro. This is a semipresential extension course which aims to train Elementary School teachers on gender, sexual diversity and ethnic-racial relations. A documentary analysis was conducted using written records produced by student teachers who participated in the course mentioned. The goal was to identify the existing tensions between previous ideas of the participants and the content put into debate, characterized by a human rights perspective. From the analysis of public policies and teachers discourses on sexuality, it is considered that the school constitutes itself as a forum committed to a regulatory perspective. The construction of human rights perspective on the proposition of most contemporary policies is considered a project yet to be done, both by the problematization of standardized aspects which themselves contain as from teachers training initiatives in a critical and dialogic perspective.