Sexualidade e educação sexual na perspectiva de docentes dos 4° e 5° anos do ensino fundamental

Abstract

The aim of our study was to analyze the perspective of teachers who worked or work in the 4th and 5th years of Elementary School on Sexual Education. We seek to know the conceptions that these and these teachers have about the role of Sexual Education in t he lives of the students, in addition, to understand how these professionals built their knowledge on the subject throughout their lives and to analyze, through their reports, whether they promote the debate on sexuality in the classroom and through which approach. For this, we carried out an exploratory qualitative research, using semistructured, offsite interviews, and analyzed the data through feminist studies and gender and sexuality studies in education, with theoretical support from feminist authors : Jimena Furlani, Maria Rita A. Cesar, Guacira L. Louro, Beatriz A. Lins, Bernardo Machado and Michele Escoura. As research results, we identified and analyzed that the teacher and teacher participating in the study recognize the importance of sex educatio n in school as something important and of social relevance, however they still face obstacles to put it into practice, such as: insufficient training on the subject at graduation, lack of knowledge and sexual education in their school and family life traje ctories, and finally, they do not always have the support of school management and fear in relation to the opinion of the children's families.