Educação sexual na educação infantil: uma proposta para repensar conceitos de gêneros, corpos e sexualidades com crianças de 4 a 5 anos

Abstract

Sexual Education is a cultural apparatus that can significantly assist in discussions about the arrangements of genders, corporeality and sexualities since Early Childhood Education, in order to favor the (re)signification of these socio-historically constructed concepts. In view of this, this research work aims to understand how the theme of Sexual Education in Early Childhood Education is inserted in academic productions with regard to the concepts of genders, bodies and sexualities; Furthermore, we recommend a didactic-pedagogical proposal that makes it possible to rethink these concepts and serve as inspiration for the creation of other activities. To this end, we adopted qualitative bibliographical research as a methodological route. Through data collection, 8 articles were selected from the CAPES Periodicals Portal, involving our object of analysis. Therefore, we base our work on the studies of researchers who discuss Sexual Education, genders, bodies and sexualities, among them, Furlani (2016), Louro (2014), Butler (2018), Nunes and Silva (2006) etc. From this study, and considering the time frame delimited in this research (2019 to 2022), we found that academic productions support the discussion on Sexual Education from an early age in educational institutions, as it can favor the significant construction and affirmation of children's identity, as well as the destabilization of the hegemonic norms of the heteronormative binary system whose discourses corroborate inequalities and violence against dissenting people. Therefore, we hope that this work awakens concerns in readers, encouraging them to develop new research in this thematic area, with the aim of promoting an emancipatory, inclusive, anti-sexist education, capable of forming citizens who are indignant in the face of social injustices, fighting to change the reality in which they live.