Relação de gênero e diversidade em uma escola de ensino fundamental de Contagem

Abstract

The school plays a fundamental role not only in the socialization of knowledge, but in the construction of values, beliefs, habits and prejudices. And considering that its performance can be both builder of equal relations, as reproducer of inequalities, the present study aimed to carry out an analysis of the school environment on issues related to gender, race and sexual diversity in a public school of Contagem. The qualitative and quantitative nature of research was conducted in two stages, the first was a literature review of books, scientific publications, laws and municipal ordinances, and in the second, there was the field work, it was possible to make observations of the school environment and conduct interviews with teachers and other employees who agreed to participate. All information gathered was authorized by the Free Consent Term. The research results suggest that there are at school searched a strong trend in the reproduction of discriminatory conduct, whether in respect of race, gender or sexual diversity. Concerning racial issues, for the implementation of Law 10.639 / 03, the school has advanced well, had a consistent work, however, there is still resistance many situations of racial discrimination. Similarly happens with gender issues, the binary man/woman is played through the rows, toys, pedagogical practices, in short, the woman is still hierarchically placed as inferior to men. The bodies are controlled, classified, or deleted. Sexual diversity must not be discussed, and thus, it becomes invisibilized. Some factors may be contributing to this reality, among them, the prejudice that each carries, lack of education, family pressures, religious discourses. It is emphasized that, although the city count on an apparatus of public policies aimed at treatment of diversity, they have not been duly appropriated by the institution.