TEACHERS TRAINING IN NORTHEAST PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES: GENDER AS DEMOCRATIC RESISTANCE IN THE CURRICULUMS

Abstract

The approval of the National Education Plan in 2014 was an important stage for the conservative demonstrations in the National Congress, with the proposal to withdraw any discursive proposition involving school work with themes related to gender and sexuality. However, the following year, in 2015, the National Education Council (CNE) defined the National Curricular Guidelines for initial training at the higher level of teaching professionals, establishing that the specific contents in "human rights, ethnic-racial diversity, gender , sexual "(BRAZIL, 2015, p.11) must be guaranteed in the curricular structures of Brazilian undergraduate courses. This measure can be considered as an advance in the face of several setbacks that have been taking place in the country. The purpose of this study is to identify the existence or not of compulsory and / or elective courses on gender and sexuality studies in the undergraduate courses of public universities in the cities of Juazeiro - BA and Petrolina - PE.