EDUCAÇÃO SEXUAL DE ONTEM E DE HOJE: REPRESENTAÇÃO SOCIAL DE SUJEITOS JUVENIS
EDUCAÇÃO SEXUAL DE ONTEM E DE HOJE: REPRESENTAÇÃO SOCIAL DE SUJEITOS JUVENIS
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.633142426124
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Palavras-chave: Educação Sexual, conceito científico, preconceito.
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Keywords: Sex Education, scientific concept, prejudice.
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Abstract: Brazilian families have almost always delegated to schools the responsibility of sexually educating Brazilian children and adolescents, which encouraged the emergence of formal school-based sex education in the mid-20th century. Initially, sex education aimed to contribute to the control of sexual infections in favor of collective health, with encyclopedias and dictionaries as the main means of scientific dissemination. Since science is linked to local culture and temporal practice, harmful concepts that contradict gender rights, sexual equality, relationships and human affections were disseminated socially in this past period. In contemporary times, sex education – adapted to today's society – is antagonistic to the concepts of the 1970s, as it takes sex education out of the “hands” of medical and biological sciences and makes it multidisciplinary and necessary to combat social prejudices. However, in view of this change in definitions, the emergence of laws and the resumption of diverse relational practices, the research asks: how do young people think about concepts related to relationships, family, gender rights and affectivity? The methodology used was a case study, with a qualitative and quantitative approach, of an ethnographic nature, which was developed in an institutional and contextualized situation. The research was conducted with 191 students in the 3rd year of high school. Therefore, it was concluded by an analytical spectrum, with the 1970s and the present day as opposing poles, and the students' representation on the topic was understood, after tabulating the data. Thus, it was observed that high school students fluctuate between antagonistic sexual educations and, perhaps having sexual education only as a cross-cutting theme in the Brazilian common basic curriculum and outside the new high school, is a preponderant factor for this conceptual fluctuation and shallow understanding of the contemporary concepts covered by sexual education.
- Marcelo Barroso Barreto
- Ronald Cândidos Sales dos Santos
- Luana dos Santos Lima
- Ana Júlia Silveira Damascena Lima Silva