Continuing education for teachers in gender and sexuality: experience report

Abstract

This paper reports a teachers training activity implemented from the extension project named “Continuing Education for Teachers in Gender and Sexuality”. The project aimed to train teachers to work on the thematics of gender and sexuality in everyday school life from the perspective of human rights. The adopted methodology consisted of action planning meetings with the scholar managers and training of the teachers in activity, comprising 60 professionals divided into two groups of 30 participants. Course attendants reported that they felt more qualified to mediate students’ expressions of sexuality. We understand that the offered formation has met its objectives, promoting changes in postures that once used to reduce sexuality to the biomedical field, and breaking stereotypes that understood this thematic in a binary and gender inequality supporting manner. Altogether, these alterations have allowed the emergence of interventions in consonance with the principles proposed by public policies.