Opinion: how schools teach beyond the curriculum
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Jaider Fernandes Reis and Fernanda Cristina Silva explain how schools in Brazil teach lessons extending beyond formal subjects, shaping students through gestures, relationships, and even silence.
Guacira Lopes Louro, a professor and researcher, contributed significantly to understanding how education intersects with gender, sexuality, bodies, and differences. Louro, a historian, analyzed how schools perceive and treat individuals, arguing that schools are not neutral spaces but transmit values and behaviors.
Louro began her career at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, where she critically examined educational processes and expanded studies on gender and sexuality. She also helped found the Grupo de Estudos de Educação e Relações de Gênero (GEERGE) and the Genêro, Sexualidade e Educação study group within the Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Educação (ANPEd). Her work encourages discussions about diversity, human rights, and challenging prejudice within schools and society.
The Bibliografia Viva program will host a special event on September 29th to honor Louro’s work, broadcasting the event on the ANPEd’s YouTube channel. The event aims to revisit her contributions and discuss how education acknowledges, welcomes, questions, or ignores different experiences and ways of being. By revisiting Louro’s work, the program hopes to keep her ideas alive and inspire new thinking about contemporary education.
