“Sexualidades em jogo”: um recurso didático para o ensino de gênero e diversidade

Abstract

In Brazil, the theme of sexual education assumes the most central position in society between the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on women's health. The main motivation was to ensure healthy reproduction and repress female attitudes seen as immoral at the time. One of the strongest reasons for this is that, for a long time, in our Judeo-Christian society, sexuality was associated with reproduction in the case of women and pleasure in the case of men. In the 1960s and 1970s, there was resistance to sex education in Brazilian schools, a period marked by political acts of persecution of teachers regarding the content and approaches of teaching. Misconceptions, full of myths and stereotypes, form a fragile basis for discourses of persecution and continue to produce barriers to teaching work and to the full exercise of citizenship by students. In this work, using Cultural Studies as a lens in its post-structuralist strand, we discuss the concepts of family, gender issues, power relations, sexual identities and bodies. For the approach of sexualities in schools and in the family environment, we developed a didactic resource in which the selection of content, language and rules give the game playability potential to produce learning.