A percepção de alunos da rede pública de ensino em São Bento-PB sobre a educação sexual na escola

Abstract

Sex education assists the adolescent by helping them deal with their insecurities and presenting issues such as early pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). This study is justified by the need to present a current perspective on the topic of sex education in Brazil, considering the guiding documents of the curriculum. Its general objective is to know the perception of students who attend high school in the public network of the city of São Bento – PB about the importance and availability of sex education as part of the school curriculum. Its specific objectives are: to present the importance of sex education for human formation; to indicate the main challenges and obstacles to school sex education and to evaluate how the guiding documents of the school curriculum include themes related to human sexuality. The work is based on a biographical research, considering the contributions of authors such as Ribeiro (2004), Bueno and Ribeiro (2018) and Arpini and Savegnago (2014), and taking into account the PCN (BRASIL, 1997) and the BNCC (BRASIL, 2018). A field survey was also undertaken, based on a questionnaire addressed to the participants. It is concluded that the main challenges for the sexual education of young people are linked to the resistance of parents to bring the dialogue about sexuality into family life. On the other hand, the school needs to be more effective in addressing this theme in the bias of self-knowledge, because there are flaws, and there is no current work with the guiding documents of the curriculum, which already mention the approach to sexuality as an important transversal theme since the 1990s.