Culture and education How do cultural pedagogies operate?

Abstract

Contemporary cultural configurations have required an attentive look at the pedagogical that spreads in society through cultural artefacts. Assuming that ways of living are learned in instances of culture, this article seeks to understand how the concept of cultural pedagogy, especially gender and sexuality pedagogy, is developed among researchers in the field of Education based on a systematic literature review on Brazilian Master’s dissertations and Doctoral theses between the years 2011 and 2021. By resorting to the 42 Graduate Studies in Education in Brazil that argue podcasts, soap operas, films, and magazines, among other artefacts, such as cultural pedagogies, I point to the expressive subjectivising capacity evident in the production of identities and ways of life. The conclusions of this article, which focused specifically on four researches that link cultural pedagogies to theories of gender and sexuality, point to a tendency to open up what we understand by pedagogical from the contributions of Michel Foucault, especially inspired by scientific production from southern Brazil. We learn through multiple means, emphasising the need to expand our theoretical-methodological repertoire in searching for new perspectives for pedagogies.