5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025)

The experiences, policies and programs of comprehensive sexuality education and prevention of gender violence, among others, have been gaining ground as an object of inquiry in the sociology of education. These are political, cultural and pedagogical processes that contribute to school and curricular justice, as the educational system is a key instance in the processes of denaturalization and problematization of gender inequalities, processes promoted globally and locally by feminist and sexual diversity movements, international cooperation agencies, policiy makers and academia itself, among other actors.

Currently, research is not only focused on the analysis of traditional gender inequalities and gaps in education. It also includes studies that explore the processes of progress, resistances, connections and articulations around the transformations that gender policies and programs in education deploy: through them, there is a dispute over who educates in the tension between schools and families; how gender inequalities, abuses and violences are addressed in educational institutions; the questioning of gender regimes; teacher training; feminist pedagogical practices in teaching and curriculum, among others topics.

This session aims to bring together research contributions from different contexts and scopes to discuss, share findings and common challenges around the questioning of hegemonies, cisheteropatriarchy and gender mandates, both political and school-related. Sociological, cultural and political researches are invited to account for the processes of articulation, development and implementation of policies and practices of comprehensive sexual education or gender/feminist perspectives in education, as well as their resistances - increasingly present -, attending to understandings situated withing their global articulations.