LANGUAGE TEACHING AS A STAGE OF LANGUAGE POLITICS: MOBILIZATION OF GENDER REPERTOIRES

We exemplify two of these disputed fields using the most recent legal text of Basic Education, a Base Nacional Comum Curricular (National Curricular Common Base).

The first field refers to the establishment of the English language as a compulsory curricular component of the area of Languages in the final years of Ensino Fundamental (Elementary Education), and the second refers to the deletion of the terms gender and sexual orientation of the document. We also argue that policies influence, but do not determine what happens in school practices (LOPES, 2006) and we resort to Biesta (2015) to point out that, ultimately, it is up to teachers to make decisions about the three educational purposes - qualification, socialization and subjectification - as they constantly deal with new situations that require contextual judgment.