O ensino de educação sexual e a sexualidade na percepção dos futuros docentes de ciências

Abstract

In view of the intense discussions in the educational and political scenario about the teaching of sex education in schools, the opinion of educators on the subject is relevant. Because of this, there is a need to know better if undergraduate students, future science teachers are being prepared to educate and deal with the topic of sexuality and the like within the classrooms. In this context, a qualitative research was carried out on teaching and the challenges of sexuality and sexuality education in schools and universities in order to get to know the perceptions of undergraduate students who are in the final stretch of the Biological Sciences course and who have already participated in internship and scholarship programs on the issues mentioned. For data collection, we used an online questionnaire of Google Forms, with objective and descriptive questions that were later analyzed to interpret the data and the speeches of the research subjects. In view of the results, it appears that students do not have sufficient support during the course to delve into the topic of sexual education. Having already gone through the internships, students still realize that there are challenges to teach so-called controversial topics such as sex education, but they affirm that sex education is necessary throughout Middle School (6th to 9th), which imposes the observation that it is necessary to bring the study of sexual education closer to the student of Biology, so that he can feel more secure when in school classrooms.