O ensino de Ciências e sexualidade : um estudo das abordagens e práticas educativas no 5º ano do ensino fundamental

Abstract

The study aimed to understand how the knowledge concerning the themes of sexuality are evidenced and related, from Science Teaching, and its implications in the teacher / student training of the 5th year in a public school in Manaus. For this, we sought to identify how sexuality is treated in educational devices; to verify the teaching conceptions regarding sexuality and approaches in the educational practices and to analyze the implications of conceptions of sexuality for the formative process of the students of the 5th year of Elementary School. The theoretical basis was based on the works of Foucault (2011, 2015), Louro (2000, 2003), Furlani (2005, 2011), among others. As it is a methodological procedure, the research is offered in a qualitative approach, through a case study. In relation to the techniques and instruments of data collection, using a documental analysis of educational means, a semistructured interview with two teachers, a participatory observation and a notebook with the objective of performing three didactic sequences with the students and the students from the team. The analysis and interpretation of the data followed the steps of the qualitative case study, correlating the data with the basic theoretical contributions of the study. The results showed that the subjects related to sexuality are directly related to the discipline of Sciences, in a biological bias, even their discussion transversally incorporated in the analyzed educational documents. Teaching conceptions have exposed confluences between biological, moral and religious views, as well as children, making the sexuality aspect learned socially, reproduced in school, and in the articulations between girls and boys. The study stresses the need to insert the theme in the curricula of the initial training courses and continued of teachers and causes new investigations, enabling other approaches, as well as configuring as resistant to the growth of a reactionary wave that attempts to curtail discussions of sexuality in schools.

Keywords: Sexuality. Science teaching. Sexual Education. Gender andSexuality