Gênero e a (não) participação nas aulas de educação física: um olhar interseccional

Abstract

This study is based in the concept of intersectionality to analyze how sexuality, gender, race, skin color, social class, among others, produce exclusion in Physical Education (PE) classes. Practices considered socially as well as for men or women, homophobia, racism, or even the lack of resources and structure are present in the spaces at the school specified way, in PE. In the studied school, the gender questions at some moments are quite evident in PE classes. Resistance or refuse to participate some activities—by lack of the protagonism for some girls or boys who distancing from normative patterns of masculinity, for example has generated concerns for the researcher teacher. that beyond is already known about this thematic in school environments of general mode, intend to investigate and understand a little more about the relationship between the social markers of difference, with an emphasis on gender, and (non)participation of students in PE classes. In this sense, this work search debate of specifically way how gender and other social markers of difference are relationed (non)participation in high school PE classes. After approval of the Ethics Committee, were applicated questionnaires to 110 students enrolled in the first year of high school. after the analysis of these questionnaires, five students were selected to realize a life history interviews. After data collect, it was possible notice that instances in PE classes marked the school trajectories of the students participating of this search , mainly the instances associated the exclusion and discrimination situations. Memories are associated the scenes of (non)participation related for gender and sexuality questions, which provoke feelings relationed to these instances in the context of school PE.