Sexualidade infantil: concepções e práticas de professoras da educação infantil

Abstract

The present study speaks of children’s sexuality during their early childhood, which - despite being an extremely relevant theme - is still surrounded by a great deal of taboo and misgiving by the educators and also of families. For the most part, this is due to the lack of information or even some misconceptions concerning the aforementioned subject, which prompted the question that leads the project: what is the conception of sexuality for the teachers of Primary School? In order to seek understanding for such question, we did some readings outlining a brief discussion about human and children’s sexuality and engaged in dialogues with authors who discuss the role of the educators in the development of the latter. As a methodological path, the study used a qualitative approach, collecting data through survey forms which were answered by six teachers from public and private schools in the metropolitan area of the city of João Pessoa. In the end, through the data analysis, it was highlighted that the teachers who took part in the survey presented a good level of knowledge of the theme regarding children’s sexuality and held the belief that children do manifest their sexuality. We were led to the conclusion that sexuality is a phenomenon which is inherent to life and people are born with, being slowly developed overtime and suffering great influence from the family and the sociocultural environment in which the individual is inserted. This research can serve as basis for future studies, bearing in mind it is a theme of utmost relevance in the area of Education.