Intersectionality in training programmes for educational professionals. Reflections on educational settings and processes in gender- and sexuality-related contexts

Educational professionals often enroll in training courses focused on social difference and diversity to stay updated and enhance their competencies in this area. This article examines the didactic use of intersection-ality in training programmes for educational professionals on gender and sexual diversity, the educational impetus and learning arrangements in this regard and the challenges that exist. The data evaluated using participant observation and methods of grounded theory and situation analysis reveal qualitative differences in how the content of intersectionality is conveyed as a concept and how the dimensions of the triad of race, class, gender, the intertwining of different power relations and the de-essentialising critique of identity, which are given with the concept of intersectionality, are taken up and implemented.