Gênero e sexualidade a partir de grupos étnicos subalternizados: possibilidades para o ensino de ciências

Abstract

This study explores gender and sexuality alternatives constructed by subalternized ethnic groups that antagonize the norms resulting from the worldview of European colonizers. We support the thesis that the resistance of subalternized ethnic groups, dispersed throughout the world, highlights alternative worldviews. As a main result, we consider that, considering that in Brazil Law nº 11,645, of March 10, 2008 establishes the mandatory teaching of “Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous History and Culture” in all curricular components of Basic Education, we understand that it is also the role of Science Teaching to problematize biologizing and reductionist notions of the body, in light of what subalternized ethnic groups teach us about gender and sexuality. Thus, the development and analysis of science teaching proposals that articulate gender, sexuality, colonialism and the cultures of subalternized peoples is a latent field of investigation.