Entre educar e cuidar: a importância da educação sexual na formação de crianças e adolescentes como estratégia para promover a prevenção de violências, abusos e o combate à desinformação

Abstract

This paper discusses the importance of sex education in the school curriculum and the challenges of its implementation. In Brazil, Sex Education is considered a taboo, and despite its provision in official documents, in schools, the theme tends not to be addressed for several reasons. The objective of this study is to analyze the role of sex education in the formation of children and adolescents, aiming to promote care and protection in the face of violence, abuse and bullying practiced against these subjects. Thus, it is proposed to present reflections based on the analysis of documents and curricular parameters, such as BNCC (2017) and the National Curriculum Parameters (1998), as well as the bibliography on the subject, especially the discussions brought by Louro (2000); Fiorini (2020) and Casarotti (2023). Based on the information obtained, it can be observed that the sex education currently applied does not contemplate all the aspects inherent to human sexuality, and among the existing difficulties, it is mainly noted the spread of misinformation on the subject, resistance to the debate in political and social spheres and the lack of training of educators to deal with the theme. As for the gains in the training process, they are observed in several fields of human development, such as prevention of abuse and harassment, promotion of physical and mental health, well-being, improvement in affective relationships and communication, reduction of stigmas and prejudices. Finally, it is essential that sex education be contemplated in classrooms, as a transversal theme, in order to guarantee the full education of students and ensure rights provided for in the constitution