Sexual diversity status in Brazil's and France's educational policies: Comparison as a denaturalizing tool for the quotidian of research

Abstract

The goal of this article is to describe and problematize the quotidian of producing a research, which, in itself, seeks to understand how naturalized homophobic and sexist discriminatory actions are produced in the quotidian of schools in Brazil and France, based on the implementation of public policies. Besides presenting information and hypotheses derived from fieldwork, the intention of this text is to present the challenges of a research that immerses into the quotidian of different socioeconomic and cultural contexts. The analysis of using the comparative tool, considered as having a distortion effect of an image in the mirror and suspension effect of pre-constructed forms of comprehension of what is experienced, indicates that this order of analytic intervention allows to denaturalize research practices and the understanding of problems, distinctively from positivist comparison exercises that intend to generalize.