New attempts of moral control in Education: Conflicts on gender and sexuality in curriculum and teacher education

Brazilian society has been experiencing an intense hegemonic clash over the conceptions of gender and sexuality articulated in the public policies of curriculum and teacher training. Conservative political and religious groups have settled an aggressive attack on what they call “gender ideology” in...

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Published inEducação Unisinos Vol. 22; no. 1; p. 16
Main Authors Anna Luiza Araújo Ramos Martins de Oliveira, Gustavo Gilson Sousa de Oliveira
Format Journal Article
LanguagePortuguese
Published São Leopoldo Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, Editoria de Periódicos Científicos 01.01.2018
Subjects
Curricula
Educational Policy
Educational Theories
Gender
Laclau, Ernesto (1935-2014)
Morality
Mouffe, Chantal
Sexuality
Teacher Education
Teacher Improvement
Teacher Qualifications
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Summary:Brazilian society has been experiencing an intense hegemonic clash over the conceptions of gender and sexuality articulated in the public policies of curriculum and teacher training. Conservative political and religious groups have settled an aggressive attack on what they call “gender ideology” in education. Analyzing the constitution of discourses promoting gender equality and sexual diversity in Brazilian educational policies over the last decades and the emergence of reactive (neo)conservative discourses in the current scenario, the text seeks to discuss the conditions of (im)possibility of this hegemonic confrontation. The analysis is developed in dialogue with post-structuralist education theories, and especially with Laclau and Mouffe’s Political Theory of Discourse. The paper points out that both the discursive poles engaged in the current conflict are contingent historical constructs, and that the debate in the field of education has been predominantly carried out from the common parameter of the policies of accommodation and strategic management of differences.
ISSN:1519-387X
2177-6210