Concepts and reports of basic Education teachers on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The school, par excellence a space for socialization, serves as stage for the identity construction of those who attend it and works in a pretended and unpretentious way in the establishment and reproduction of ways of interpreting and interacting with the world and the experiences lived in it. As important agents in these processes, teachers must always act critically to their practices in order to avoid and break social stigmas by constantly being aware of their historical-cultural roots so that they do not perpetuate and break ideas that perpetuate suffocating human hierarchies, advantageous to a hegemonic elite that relies on the inferiorization of other bodies, especially women and LGBT+s. Given the changes in the context of educational policies caused by the BNCC approval we aim to better understand the scenario of teacher education and school daily life, as well as some of the concepts of 14 collaborating teachers about sexual and gender diversity by paralleling educational policies, their initial and continuing education, and their school practices, to do so we carried out a qualitative research with an open questionnaire in virtual environment whose answers were analyzed following an interpretative line always considering the concepts of partial positioning and positioned knowledge as illustrated by Haraway. We divided our results and discussions into three major blocks, ‘Steven and the Stevens’, a characterization of our collaborators, ‘Open book’, where we explored the formation and conceptions of the collaborators, and ‘Log date 7 15 2’, where we discuss some of the situations and practices experienced by these teachers. The results indicate that, despite being a group of newly graduated teachers - half got their degrees less than five years ago - few discussed issues related to sexuality and gender in their graduation, indicating that the discussions on the theme occur only with the teachers' awareness and/or their interest, and yet, half of the teachers recognize that the topic has no age to be debated, while some point out that the debate only occurs in High School and/or Elementary Education, which serves as a possible indicator that teachers consider the existence of a maturation for such a debate. Conclusions indicate that teacher graduation courses should ensure that the debate does not take precedence over sexual and reproductive issues, extending to historical and cultural issues.