Abstract:
This research aims to highlight how a school curriculum that values sexual and gender diversity is produced in a federal institute. To this end, the concept of life trajectories is used as a theoretical, methodological and political trigger for the objectives of this research. 16 subjects were interviewed whose professional trajectory were marked by having, at some point in their lives, been a representative within the Gender and Sexual Diversity Centers of the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Sul. The analysis of the research material concludes that these centers articulate political processes towards the development of different pedagogical mechanisms in favor of questioning and/or maintaining networks of meanings about diversity. Finally, it is understood that the Gender and Sexual Diversity Centers operate spaces for opening and strengthening political-pedagogical debates on gender and sexuality in federal institutes in general.
Keywords:
Life trajectories; Federal institutes; Sexism; Sex education; Mainstreaming Education.