LGBTQIA+ TERRITORIALITIES IN ELEMENTARI EDUCATION: GEOGRAPHICAL GENDER AND SEXUALITY WORKSHOP AS A TOOL FOR STRUGGLE AND RESISTANCE
Workshop, LGBTQIA+ Territoriality, Geography Teaching, Gender.
This research proposes the school area as a stage for the implementation of a geographic educational methodology that allows the articulation of student as protagonists, emphasizing the spatial practices of LGBTQIA + students. Even though, by many components of the school community, are considered deviant to heteronormative and hegemonic socio-cultural standards have been facing in the last decades an erasing by educational politicians that are clearly positioned on the inclusion and diversity in the scope of gender and sexuality discussions. Therefore, we chose the concept of Territory (and its derivatives: territorialities and experienced territories) as a direction for the study, since spatial practices become “marginal” experiences, implying the transposition of frontiers, generation of conflicts and construction of territorialities to from power relationship. The final product is an interdisciplinary Geographic Workshop that addresses content that articulates Geography, Gender and Sexuality in Elementary School II. The theoretical basis revolves around the concepts of Territory, Gender and Sexuality and the concept of Maldita Geography, having as references: SILVA, ORNAT & CHIMIN JÚNIOR (2013); TUAN (1985); RAFFESTIN (1993); SILVA et all. (2013); THIOLLENT (1986); RIBEIRO (2017); VENCATO (2014); ABRAMOVAY (2015), DE SOUZA (2013); MOORE (2000); BOURDIEU (1999); LOURO (2004); JUNQUEIRA (2009); WALTRIK (2018), in addition to the documents that support Brazilian education. The methodology is based on action research, present in the daily lives of many teachers, and unfolds in a set of educational practices based on an experiment reality. The result arises from the analysis of the geographic workshop, presented by activities, questionnaire, interviews and testimonies. Therefore, we believe that this educational product serves as a guide in the process of struggle for an inclusive education that values respect for diversity in the school environment and the strengthening of the territorialities of LGBTQIA + students.