ENTRE CAMINHOS E DESCAMINHOS: OS DESAFIOS, EMBARAÇOS E ENCANTAMENTOS DAS PESQUISAS PÓS-ESTRUTURALISTAS NA ÁREA DE EDUCAÇÃO, GÊNERO E SEXUALIDADE

Abstract

In this article, we venture to analyze the effects that research based on a post-structuralist perspective produces on researchers who bet on it. For this, we took as an analysis the experiences of four researchers, one of them the advisor of the others, in the development of investigations that focused on gender and sexuality issues. We ask ourselves: what are the provocations, disruptions, and seductions made possible by post-structuralist investigations? What research produced based on the post-structuralist perspective must teach us about the formation of the researcher? Sometimes, this research shakes the certainties that we have learned with modernity, denuding and problematizing this place of the researcher. On the other hand, when we take on challenges and embarrassments, we reinvent ourselves. Also, the school spaces in which this research entered caused us to change paths, give up on some purposes and take other directions. Perhaps, research based on a post-structuralist perspective opens the way for us to face the (un)known.Keywords: Post-structuralist. School. Gender. Sexuality. Experience.