A diversidade sexual no contexto escolar: Discursividades em narrativas docentes

Abstract

Sexual diversity is a relevant issue at the center of attention of researches conducted both in education and in other related to social sciences and humanities. In Brazil, the issues related to sexual orientation were materialized in the National Curriculum Parameters (PCNs) in the form of transversal theme, in volume 10 Cultural Plurality and sexual orientation to be developed by all pedagogical subjects and activities of school. The overall objective of this study is to investigate the discursive positions of teachers in the municipality of Itapororoca-PB, face the situations experienced relating to issues of sexuality in everyday school life. It is a qualitative ethnographic research, enlists in applied linguistics and theoretically-oriented by discourse analysis, Orlandi (2003), by the theorizing of Foucault (1988) and Louro (1997). The data resulting from the questionnaire were analyzed, these data were supplemented through circle of conversations with teachers. The analysis of the narratives of the participants educators of the investigation demonstrated the need for actions that provide the live (live together) with cultural diversity, in particular the issues related to sexual diversity, pointed out the teachers’ difficulty in dealing with these issues in the school routine. Among these difficulties are: the taboo that prevails in society, the perception conflicts, lack of time for a more effective dialogue with the student, lack of a deeper knowledge on the subject, difficult to identify whether the student's behavior, dress, mannerisms etc., are traces of their sexual orientation, among others presented results that support an intervention proposal for Portuguese language teachers. This study represented an epistemological challenge in seeking for new meaning in the look for the reinvention of social life.