PERSECUTION, SILENCE AND CENSORSHIP: gender coloniality in public high school in São Caetano do Sul/SP (2018-2022)
This research addresses the context of disputes around educational policies in Brazil between 2003 and 2022, with the intensification of reactions against diversity policies, understood as a possibility of confronting the multiple hierarchies of the Brazilian social structure. This study investigates how the public policy of education at the high school level offered by the municipality of São Caetano do Sul (SP), between 2018 and 2022, has been used to intensify gender coloniality in the city. Therefore, educational data were analyzed that reconfigure the municipal offer of secondary education, documents that constitute the municipal educational policy and the journalistic coverage that followed the unfolding of the educational context of the municipality. The study also includes six interviews with professors who have undergone public examinations or disciplinary administrative processes, to deepen the perception of the intersection of neoliberal and neoconservative agendas by and within schools. In the period studied, the municipal administration leaned towards the reorganization of secondary education, with attacks on the municipal network and favoring the indirect public administration. The intensification of neoliberal and neoconservative agendas increased municipal executive management power, undermined the pedagogical power of the teaching staff and expanded the persecutory environment - reinforcing gender coloniality in municipal secondary education.