Before the storm, the apparent calm: gender and sexuality in the humanities teacher education curriculums at UFS

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the place of gender and sexuality issues in the Pedagogical Course Projects (PPC) of ten teacher education courses at UFS, located at the Center for Human Sciences and Education (CECH), and in the specific National Curriculum Guidelines (DCN in portuguese) that are based on. We argue that the specific DCN in the humanities area, crossed by discourses of modern science and education, promoted investments in scenarios, neutral and normalizing regarding gender and sexuality in these curriculums. Not discussing gender sexuality relations, nor how to consider, directs the curriculums to materialize the norms prescribed for each biological sex, defining the appropriate and inconsiderable bodies in curricular concerns. The moment of production of the curriculum documents seems to be of light winds, of an apparent cultural calm, while different temporal pressures have already announced the arrival of the storms that moved from the margins.