Gênero e sexualidade na percepção de professores/as de escolas do campo

Abstract

The present research aims to: a) to know the perceptions of the teachers working in a rural school about gender and sexuality issues;b) To map whether and how the themes of gender and sexuality appear in their pedagogical experiences;c) analyze how gender and sexuality are understood by teachers of a rural school. The research brings in its development questions related to Rural Education, its history of struggles and achievements, as well as training for rural educators, as well as issues addressing gender and sexuality issues for discussion in the rural school classrooms. The results of the research show that it is possible to think on the long path that we need to go through so that the school can address issues of gender, sexuality and diversity in general. The same is characterized as a qualitative and exploratory research, where data collection was performed in two stages, the first through the application of a semistructured questionnaire and the second through interview, with the professors of a school in the rural located in the city of Mari-PB. In brief, for some teachers, the concepts studied here are strongly inhibitable by religious knowledge, for others, it is extremely necessary to answer the concerns of the students.