EDUCAÇÃO SEXUAL BRASIL E PORTUGAL EM ESPAÇOS ESCOLARES: APROXIMAÇÕES A PARTIR DE DOCUMENTOS OFICIAIS.

Abstract

This study had the purpose to investigate the official documents that rules the Sex Education in Brazil and Portugal. The importance of this theme is in the need to deepen the discussions and studies in the scope of sex education, since there are difficulties, limitations and misconceptions faced and-or committed by teachers and education professionals within the school spaces, which show plurality, diversity and cultural and social specificities. To this end, laws were investigated, parameters and other relevant documents to this theme. For the accomplishment of this study, it was discussed about education, school spaces, sexuality, sex education, family planning, politics, state, government, neo-liberalism and capitalism. This is a dialectical research, more specifically a documentary research guided by a bibliographic survey and reflections concerning the level at which Sexual Education is being developed in Brazil and Portugal. As theoretical foundation is: Foucault (1988, 2011), Nunes (1987, 2010), Arendt (2002, 2004, 2007), Campos (2005), Bobbio; Metteucci e Pasquino (1998), Louro (2000), Saviani (1991), Vaz (1996), Moizés (2010), César (2009) e Suplicy (1983). The documentation survey was conducted in 2015 and in the first three months of 2016. The data tabulated, was drawn up in six analysis tables: the first three refers to documents that states the context of sexuality and sexual education in school spaces in Brazil. Federal Constitution (1988); Statute of the Child and Adolescent (Law 8.069 - 1990); Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education (Law 9.394 - 1996); Statute of the Person with Special Needs (Law No. 13,146 - 2015) and National Curricular Parameters - Sexual Orientation. The last three tables relates to specific laws of national character in the perspective of sexuality and sexual education in Portugal: Sex Education and Family Planning (Law No. 3-1984); Guarantee the Right to Reproductive Health (Law No. 120-1999) and Polity of Sexual Education Applied in Schools (Law No. 60-2009). The survey pointed to contemporary issues from historical uprisings precursor to the current sexual education, as biologizing and hygienist human sexuality and the principles of the Declaration of Sexual Rights (WAS). The analysis was directed to advances and limitations about the current reality in sex education in school spaces and influences of the sexual constitution of the human being in its totality. It is suggested the need of more studies, researches and ongoing dialogues and with systematization for research standards to be established and possible appropriation of what was positive and beneficial in a certain country with a view to implement in another. Brazil, for example, can analyze actions of the Sexual Orientation Council and the methods of sexual education coordinator implemented in Portuguese territory.