Gênero e diversidade na escola - GDE: investigando narrativas de profissionais da educação sobre diversidade sexual e de gênero no espaço escolar.

In this Thesis, linked to the research line "Curriculum, professionalization and teaching" of the Post-Graduation Program in Education of the Federal University of Pelotas, I investigate narratives of professional education on sexual and gender diversity in the school environment from an improvement distance course entitled Gender and Diversity at School – GDS. The research established some connections with Cultural Studies, in its poststructuralist trends and some propositions of Michel Foucault. This Thesis is anchored in the Narrative Research Method, which considers the narrative as a form of data production and also as a methodological possibility, based on the authors Jorge Larrosa, Michel Connelly and Jean Clandinin. So, I understand the narrative as both a research methodology as well as a social practice constituting the individuals. In order to compose the corpus analysis, it was considered the narratives produced by a group of GDS course participants, promoted by FURG/UAB, in the years of 2009 and 2010, from the campus of São Lourenço do Sul in which this researcher acted as tutor. It was considered as narrative both subjects? speeches in person during some meetings and their interactions in Moodle, and also the production of their intervention projects. For data investigation, I have drawn two categories of analysis: gender diversity and sexual diversity. By analyzing narratives about gender diversity at school, I cast doubt on the issue of masculinity and femininity in school, bringing the gender category to think about school practices and to reflect on how the students are educated, based on gender relations that have been built in our society. In narratives about sexual diversity in school productions, I analyze the manufacturing of normal school subject, bringing the concept of curriculum practiced to think that the experiences lived by the subjects are cultural constructions that regulate and produce identities from a heteronormative logic. Considering the narratives, I understand that the ...