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This paper discusses how the prejudices against different forms of sexuality and gender appeared in one Colombian school. Based on the theory of subjectivity from a cultural–historical point of view, social and institutional facts are theoretically interrelated through subjective social configurations that appear organized as the motives of educators, whose behaviors are oriented toward excluding and discriminating against any sexual or gender expression that does not correspond to the conventional male and female models. The chapter shows that, instead of sexual education, in the studied school the students are only informed about the implications of sex for health, ignoring sex as expressing human affection, authenticity, and love. The theory of subjectivity opens up new paths toward understanding how individuals’ histories and social experiences appear subjectively configuring human sexuality. There are the subjective configurations of professor, students, other school professionals, and the major barrier for the application of the new Colombian educational regulations, which promote education oriented toward the acceptance and integration of sexual and gender diversity.
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As proposed by González Rey, subjective senses are symbolic–emotional units that express the way in which a person experiences various spheres of life. In this view, sex is configured subjectively and uniquely in each individual, who creates subjective senses associated with morality, race, gender, religion and sets of subjective social constructions according to the way in which he or she has subjectively experienced them in his or her microcosm of life. See the first chapter of this book, in which this idea is fully developed as part of a theoretical proposal.
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Subjective configurations are relatively stable and transient forms that result from the flow of the subjective senses that characterize a human activity. Once formed, subjective configurations are the source of subjective senses that are self-generated by the configuration during an experience organized within that subjective configuration.
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An expression of disgust.
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González Rey, F., Moncayo Quevedo, J.E. (2019). Sexual Diversity, School, and Subjectivity: The Irrationality of the Dominant Rationale. In: González Rey, F., Mitjáns Martínez, A., Magalhães Goulart, D. (eds) Subjectivity within Cultural-Historical Approach. Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research, vol 5. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3155-8_8
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