GENDER AND YOUTH AND ADULT EDUCATION: NEW VIEW FOR SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION

This article presents a research that problematized how the gender theme is present in some municipal curricular guidelines of the State of Rio de Janeiro directed to Youth and Adult Education (EJA). EJA is a modality of education offered to those who did not have opportunities to complete basic education at the age considered regular. As teachers graduated in physical education, attentive to issues related to the body as a cultural construction, we seek to identify how gender is addressed in the school environment, as a transversal theme of an education that seeks to constitute a fair and egalitarian society. The methodology adopted was the literature review, in particular the documentary analysis of laws and national curriculum guidelines/orientations and three municipalities in the metropolitan region - Tangua, Rio de Janeiro and Belford Roxo - of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Highlighting the importance of references that promote the organization of teaching work, we conclude that, in general, the curriculum guidelines/orientations of EJA allow the approach of this theme in the school environment, even if in an indirect way. And that physical education classes can significantly contribute to transforming a society with exclusive values into opportunities for all.