“I’m gay, I’m cheerful, but I’m not a mess!”: teaching, homosexuality and aesthetics of existence

Authors

  • Filipe Gabriel Ribeiro França Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644417122

Keywords:

Gay teacher, Teaching constitution, School

Abstract

This text brings narratives produced from interviews with a homosexual teacher for a master thesis. The question examined in the research of the following inquiry: “What are the narratives, experiences and modes that constitutes teachers gay?”. Was used as theoretical and methodological framework poststructuralist perspective. From this perspective might be problematized the ways in which the teacher researched will constitute as gay teacher and discuss how this teacher will be producing power relations, in relations with each other and especially how it relates to the academic institution. Coming out as gay teacher organizes the way the subject behaves in school, experiencing an ongoing process of negotiation with each other and with themselves.

Author Biography

Filipe Gabriel Ribeiro França, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais

Licenciado em Educação Física pelo Centro Universitário de Sete Lagoas – UNIFEMM; Mestre e doutorando em Educação pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora; Professor de Educação Física na rede estadual de ensino de Minas Gerais.

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Published

2016-07-21

How to Cite

França, F. G. R. (2016). “I’m gay, I’m cheerful, but I’m not a mess!”: teaching, homosexuality and aesthetics of existence. Education, 41(2), 425–434. https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644417122

Issue

Educação, v. 41, n. 2, maio/ago. 2016

Section

Continuous Demand

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