A sexualidade e o ensino de biologia: tabu, abordagem e a perspectiva das(os) alunas(os)

Abstract

This research presents and analyses the student’s conception from a high school in Fortaleza, Ceará, about sexuality. Currently, in the basic education, the topic sexuality is approached by a biological-hygienist perspective, defined by Furlani (2011), as an approach that emphasize the biological determinism on the gender differentiation and focus on aspects as health and human reproduction, so, end up strengthening segregating ideas and the exclusion of those who do not fit. From this analysis the research seeks to understand those students’s perspective and realize how this theme is approached by biology discipline and if this happens in a satisfactory way. With this work, we realized the students, usually, have a precarious understanding about sexuality and based on a social hegemony. Also, it is found that the school when it approaches this subject focuses on a biological-hygienist perspective. Also, the questions of the students are not solved in the Biology class, because this topic is a taboo, still undeveloped inside the school and their focus is the aspects which do not fit with their interests. This research brings a reflexive suggestion for the approach of the sexuality in classroom. Still, reflects about the importance, inside the sex education on a Weeks (2000)’s perspective, of the teacher formation curriculum in the graduation of Biologic Sciences at the Federal University of Ceará.