EDUCAÇÃO SEXUAL EM ESPAÇOS DA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL

Abstract

This research seeks to understand how teachers and assistants of the SME of Goiânia develop (or not) the sexual education of children, as well as seek guidelines for an emancipatory education that contemplates sex education in child education spaces. For this, it is sought to understand human sexuality from a historical perspective, since sexuality is something inherent to the human being and is present from early childhood. It is also considered the strong influence of religion and hygienist medicine on the sexuality of the people, as well as the public policies that were somehow predecessors of the education currently developed in the Municipal Centers of Early Childhood Education (CMEIs) ) of Goiânia, as well as the lack of clear legislation and guidelines on sexuality in early childhood education. Thus, it was sought to answer: What practices and / or needs of educational professionals of the Municipal Education Network (RME) of Goiânia, with a view to an emancipatory child sexual education? In the methodology, we opted for a field research, with a qualitative-quantitative approach. First we did a literature review and a literature review. The locus of the research is the SME of Goiânia, through one of its CEIs and one of its CMEIs. We have 30 respondents from two units of Early Childhood Education, corresponding to more than 40% of the total of professionals from both units. Subsequently, we conducted interviews with twelve teachers from both Centers. The research results pointed out that the education professionals surveyed have a certain difficulty in working with sexuality. Expressive 31.8% of the education professionals of the CMEI Verde and 41.2% of the professionals of the CIE Amarelo revealed that they face taboo to approach the theme. In addition, several factors - such as family education, religious orientation, parental posture, lack of an educational policy in the units observed and lack of adequate training - compromise the effective implementation of a child sexual education. It was emphasized, above all, that in Brazilian society, religion of a Christian nature played and still plays a major role both in the sexual behavior of the families and in public policies. Moreover, with such a historical heritage, the difficulties faced by children's sexual education in the formal education spaces for children, especially from the emancipatory perspective.