The teaching of biology and its articulations with body, gender and sexuality questions

The paper presents some potential to promote debates regarding the inclusion of the bodies, gender and sexualities themes in the Biology curriculum, in order to enable the (re)reading of the senses and meanings currently in circulation about these themes. These (re)readings understand these themes as historical and cultural constructs that, while they are correlating behaviours, languages, representations, beliefs, identities and attitudes are producing the individuals. In this article we establish connections with the theoretical field of cultural studies in its post-structuralist dimensions and, we took the media and textbooks of both Natural Scienceand Biology of Brazil and Portugal as products and productions, technologies and devices that carry knowledge about the bodies, genders and sexualities. We advocate that these materials reaffirm the ideals of normality and normalization of bodies, sexualities and genders. Both the media and textbooks can allow the teacher to problematize the ways in which notions of bodies, gendersand sexualities are widespread in our society. We conclude that the use of both media and textbooks in the classroom can fosterdiscussions on these themes beyond its biological dimension, which means enhancing the ownership of the bodies in a permanentprocess of construction, gendered and sexualized.

• Autores: Costa Ribeiro, Paula Regina; Corpes Magalhães, Joanalira; de Queiroz Silva, Elenita Pinheiro; Vilaça, Teresa
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2016
• Institución: Universidad Pedagógica Nacional
• Repositorio: Repositorio Institucional UPN
• Idioma: por
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.pedagogica.edu.co:20.500.12209/4136
• Acceso en línea: http://revistas.pedagogica.edu.co/index.php/bio-grafia/article/view/4500; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12209/4136
• Rights: openAccess
• License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0