RELIGIÃO, GÊNERO E EDUCAÇÃO: REFLEXÕES SOBRE DIVERSIDADE SEXUAL NO AMBIENTE ESCOLAR

Abstract

This final work of the Professional Masters Course in Religions Studies approaches the conceptual perspectives of sex, gender, body, sexual orientation and sexual diversity from a literature review. It presents the often conflict conceptions of Christianity in relation to sexual diversity. It highlights the richness of sexual diversity in its social and historical context, reporting the longings and afflictions for visibility of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, cross-dresser, transgender and intersex (LGBTI+) communities in the light of human rights. The literature review allows us to list several emblematic situations regarding sexual diversity in the school environment that generate discrimination and bullying, based on the assumption that young people and adolescents are subjects to the right to diversity and to a school with a democratic environment, and it is up to them to exercise their social function, that is, to be inclusive, remembering that access to education is the right of everyone, including the LGBTI+ community. After promoting a reflection on the previous themes, a field research was made with 81(eighty one) high-school students from the state education network of Rio de Janeiro, seeking to answer the problem question and to verify the hypothesis both raised by this work. Thus, the field research may corroborate the work hypothesis or decline it. Finally, some considerations and suggestions are made, even though we are aware that much remains to be researched, about the importance of working with issues related to sexual diversity in the school environment permeated by the Pedagogical Political Project (PPP) and the curriculum, respecting the religious formation of the students.