Teias discursivas da ideologia de gênero no fórum nacional sobre violência institucional contra crianças e adolescentes: uma análise de gênero

Abstract

This research, carried out in the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Paraíba, inserted in the Cultural Studies of Education Research Line, has as its main objective to analyze the perspective(s) of gender and sexuality addressed in the lectures presented at the National Forum on Institutional Violence against Children and Adolescents. Organized by the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights – MMFDH, the Forum intended to discuss the institutional violence to which children and adolescents are exposed – through seven lectures, presented on April 27 and 28, 2021, the entire theme of the event orbited around the fallacious ideology of gender and how teachers apply this ideology. According to the Forum, the supposed gender ideology affects the physical and mental health of children and adolescents and, therefore, it is necessary to defend ‘traditional family’. In addition, the Forum presents a reductionist view of Education, based on the assumptions of the Movimento Escola sem Partido. This work is characterized as qualitative research, of documental character. The corpus of analysis was produced through the transcription of the lectures – available on the official YouTube channel of the MMFDH and the digital book, made available to people registered for the event, using the Meaning Nucleus as an analysis strategy. The survey results indicate that the event adopts gender and sexuality as biological data, defends those debates on these topics should not take place in schools; triggers a pedagogy of fear in teachers; it ignores the fact that gender and sexuality pervade everyone’s lives and disregards the different types of family arrangements. Contrary to what was exposed in the lectures, gender and sexuality, in this work, are understood as socio-historical, cultural and pedagogical constructions. Throughout the research, it is argued that addressing these issues in schools helps children and adolescents to identify possible cases of violence, as well as helps them to know and learn to live with the differences and diversities that constitute us. Considering that the aforementioned Forum is part of the MMFDH policies and, thus, has a wide impact on educational policy and cultural relations, this dissertation intends to contribute to broadening reflections on education in the context of human rights and sexual and gender diversity, within and out of school.