Vozes discentes sobre sexualidade: um estudo na escola Carlota Barreira-Areia/PB

Abstract

In a society predominantly conservative, marked by prejudices and discrimination, address the issues related issues sexuality and gender is a major challenge, with many obstacles to be overcome, especially in school. This work is developed under the project extension "gender and sexuality in debate: rights education by the end of violence", in Escola Estadual de Ensino Fundamental e Médio Carlota Barreira, held by the public high school students aged 15 to 23 years, in the years 2017 and 2018. this is a field research, qualitative approach, in order to analyze the understandings of / teens on human sexuality and expectations regarding the role of the school to develop activities in sex education. Were collected data through questionnaires semi-structured and discussed in the light of studies on gender and sexuality, whose concepts are inseparable and highlight the educational process and socio-cultural on the gender relations and expressions of human sexuality. In this study, we discuss the data of 2018 although if take as a reference reality found in the data obtained in 2017, on the group involved in the project extension and research. The results showed that there was a evolution, by the students involved on the understanding of sexuality, showing up the ability of expression conceptual, as well as concerns with prejudices and discrimination, indicating is so often the importance of respect for the choices of people, emerging thus we debate in the classroom and the data obtained, subjects as acceptance of diversity sexual orientation. The broad most recognized the expansion of knowledge from the participation in the activities of the project, but accuse the need for continuity of educational activities on gender and sexuality, because the consider relevant to their training personal, as well as agree with the inclusion of discipline sex education in curriculum school. It is concluded that there is still a long way to be covered in school education in relation to the issues of human sexuality, because it is an aspect relevant to the formation human and school education has a duty to contribute to combat prejudices, violence and develop a culture of respect for sexual diversity and gender, for the construction of a company that welcomes human diversity