Gender, sexual diversity and field education: “in rural communities many people do not understand and treat it as a disease"

Abstract

The present study aimed to discuss issues of gender, sexual diversity, gender diversity and Rural Education. The (auto) biographical narratives were used as the methodological path, and the narrative interview as an instrument of data collection, allowing the interviewees to narrate their life story, placing themselves as protagonists of the investigation process. Thus, we emphasize that the interviewees were two gay university students, who live in the countryside. From the study, the need to problematize the dialogue around issues of gender and sexual diversity in Rural Education was noticeable. It is necessary to break binary schemes around issues that involve sexuality, mature reflections around queer bodies, aiming in fact to know how these issues are addressed in the training processes of rural communities and how much, through these processes, can be done in the sense to contribute to acceptance, I respect the plurality that exists among society, in order to decolonize / deconstruct the rules imposed and taken as standards.