No labirinto da educação infantil: as falas de educadoras sobre gênero e sexualidade

Abstract

This paper seeks to discuss about speeches of educators who work in the childhood education, conceiving them as statements. This is a concept coined by Michel Foucault, which generates questions such as: What can be said? Who is allowed to say? This way, I get into a labyrinth of statements which generate many questions, as follow: Why gender and sexuality are issues? Which governments are exerted by multiple forces, by authorities who are considered able to watch, judge, and mark the sexuality and gender? Why expressions about children sexuality cause such stir, so far? What is the context in which children express their sexuality in childhood education institutions? What is the conception of sexuality, and how this theme integrates or not the curricula of educators formation? What legal, scientific, medical, moral, religious, educational, and juridical speeches are discussed in the childhood education? All of these questions form a labyrinth, and challenge our capacity for thinking about the multiplicity and the interconnexions of these speeches, which may be obtained in the daily of childhood education.