Formação docente e abordagem de sexualidade e gênero nas escolas: uma análise da licenciatura em Ciências Socais - UFPB

Abstract

The research at hand sought to understand the relationship between the formation and praxis of teachers with a Social Science major degree by the Federal University from Paraíba (UFPB). The main objective was to understand how occurs the assimilation of the gender and sexuality subjects in the graduation process of those teachers by the curriculum components and the experience outside the classroom, considering that there are national orientations to develop those themes in high schools in a transversal way. A second objective was to percept in the speech of those sociology teachers how they bring those questions tho the school classroom and which are the obstacles they had found in this environment. Our methodology was to interview 6 individuals with major in social science who by semi-structured interviews exposed their college experience, the relation with the subjects of gender and sexuality and their way to bring those subjects to the school classroom in which their work. To identify the opportunities given by the college department of Social Science from UFPB, we investigated the PPP or PPC from the major degrees, searching to understand how is structured the curriculum and with are the classes offered by the of those curricular components and official amendments. We noticed that even with the social and political changes and the small possible accesses to those subjects during graduation, those majors develop those thematics in schools, considering the existing chances to do só, like factors such as the teachers and school administration position, actual political moment and their familiarity with those subjects.