WHERE IS THE CURRICULUM THAT WAS HERE? HAS CONSERVATISM EATEN IT UP? THE CURRICULAR TENSIONS INVOLVING GENDER AND SEXUALITY THAT SURROUND THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL IN BAHIA

This paper aims to discuss the space given to issues of gender and sexuality in curriculum documents that are articulated in the construction of the Ensino Médio “High School” in Bahia. To do so, we analyze three curriculum documents, namely: BNCC; Guidance Document for the Implementation of the New High School in the Public Education Network in Bahia and DCRB – Ensino Médio “High School Stage”. The results indicate that the BNCC generates an erasure of gender and sexuality issues and uses the term diversity as a way to generalize discussions about differences. However, the curriculum documents of Bahia explicitly bring issues about body, gender and sexuality in their propositions, emphasizing the importance of these discussions being present in high school, including highlighting the debate on feminicide and LGBTTQIA+phobia. However, these documents are still vague in the presentation of methodological proposals to help operationalize these issues in everyday school life.