SEXUAL AND GENDER DIVERSITY IN THE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM: STUDENTS' SAYS

Sexual diversity is one of the questions highlighted at school lately. Thus, studies are essential to analyze how the school space has been placed before this. This study aims to present and discuss some results inherent to an investigation in the Professional Master's Degree in Professional and Technological Education Course (ProfEPT), which seeks to think about sexual and gender diversity in the school space. It is a qualitatively-based research, whose method is action research, based on authors such as Thiollent (2007), Barbier (2002) and Tripp (2005). Methodological procedures include bibliographical, documental and field research. Conversation circles and semi-structured questionnaires were part of the instruments for data collection. The analysis of the results was carried out from the Content Analysis (BARDIN, 1977). Based on this analysis, it is concluded that the EPT curriculum in the locus of research has guided sexual and gender diversity in a specific way.