Dificuldades relatadas por professores do ensino fundamental na implementação de ações de educação sexual

Abstract

The sex education is included in the National Curriculum Parameters (PCN) issued by the Ministry of Education and Culture which proposes that while teaching sex education seeks to inform and discuss the sexuality-related issues from the experience, beliefs and student values, with the aim of expanding information and raise questions about the most appropriate choices. To achieve this goal, it is necessary that the teacher be prepared to address this issue with their students. Given the above, the objective of this study was to conduct a survey about the beliefs, attitudes and difficulties of teachers of the 5th year of elementary school of public schools front of the beginning of approach to sexual education at school. To evaluate their actions on this subject we applied a questionnaire to 81 teachers of municipal schools in Foz do Iguaçu. The results showed most teachers believe to be "good" with the information they have about sexuality and believe that sex education in school produces positive changes in attitudes. The activities performed more frequently in the classroom are to make students saw sexuality as something natural, read books, magazines to increase their knowledge about sexuality. Regarding the difficulties teachers feel increased capacity and comfort in the questions related to the biological aspects of sex education, and the issue "oral sex", "anal sex", "masturbation" and "sexual pleasure and orgasm cited by teachers as less important, they feel less able to address and generating greater discomfort to teach in the classroom. The teachers also pointed out as the biggest challenges facing the lack of suitable material, insecurity on the students and the lack of preparation in the thematic approach.