Educação sexual na escola: Concepções e contribuições

Abstract

The theme of this research is “Sex education at school: conceptions and contributions” and is in the line of research Education, culture and society. The study has as general objective to analyze the importance of sex education in school. The specific objectives are: a) to understand what sex education is (conceptions) and its approaches and b) to identify the contributions (relevance) of sex education in school. The adopted methodology was the bibliographical qualitative research that is made from studies in books and articles. The main theoretical references of the work were feminist authors such as Ana Claudia Bortolozzi Maia, Jimena Furlani, Guacira Lopes Louro who study gender and sexuality in the field of Education. The research demonstrated that sexual education is an education that we should receive about our sexuality, about our body and everything that surrounds it, gender issues, health, autonomy, among others. It is of paramount importance and contributes to a more critical education, in which people become aware of inequalities and are able to take care of themselves and others. We identified as the main contributions of sex education the fight against gender inequality, the fight against femicide, the fight against sexual abuse of children and adolescents and the fight against homophobia.