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Democracy and difference in contemporary political-curricular plots: the School Without Homophobia under analysis1 1 Translated by Gabriel Garcia. E-mail: gabriel.rib96@yahoo.com.br

ABSTRACT

In this work, we show an analytical approach to contemporary discourses on sexual difference in their references to education and more specifically to the curriculum. We aim to expose the discourse of sexual diversity, as a device for controlling and regulating life and the production of specific subjectivities that tries to close, once and for all, the flanks of the democratic radicality of difference, but also as a space where life can rise up and produce other possibilities in education. The empirical material used for this exam was the content book of the School Without Homophobia Project, document produced in the context of anti-homophobia policies, assumed by the State in present days. In its theoretical-methodological articulation the analysis is carried out post-structuralist bases using Michel Foucault's thought of difference in his political-discursive articulations. The results point to the fact that, although the School Without Homophobia program is centred on a discourse based on identity and in the diversity of tonic neoliberal, it is possible to find cracks where the difference vibrates and allows the visualization of resistance and escape lines, indicting other ethical-political references to the experience and treatment of sexuality in curriculum, compiling collisions for a democratic horizon in education. Although there is an attempt to determine the final experience sexuality in anti-homophobia policies guided by the fixation of identities, this becomes an impossible project, given the strength of the difference.

Keywords:
Curriculum; School Without Homophobia; Difference; Democracy

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