EDUCAÇÃO SEXUAL: CONCEPÇÕES DE PROFESSORES E ALUNOS DO ENSINO MÉDIO DO INSTITUTO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO, CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA DO MARANHÃO CAMPUS SÃO RAIMUNDO DAS MANGABEIRAS

Abstract

Sex Education still faces many barriers in its approach inside schools and outside them, too. This fact is related to prejudices, sexism, religion, taboos, polemics, myths, among others that concern it. Therefore, this research had the general objective to understand the concepts, challenges and expectations of teachers and students about Sexual Education at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Maranhão - IFMA Campus São Raimundo das Mangabeiras; and the specific objectives were to analyze the conceptions and challenges of Sexual Education for IFMA/SRM professors; understand the conceptions and expectations about sex education for IFMA/SRM students, and build an educational guide to assist in approaching sex education, based on the challenges and expectations analyzed. As a methodology to achieve these objectives, we used bibliographic and documentary research and the application of questionnaires with students of the 3rd year of the technical/integrated courses of the institution and with the teachers who teach classes in the referred 3rd years. As a result, we infer that the conceptions of the majority of both groups surveyed about sex education presented a biologycist, hygienist and preventive view; most students' doubts were in line with what the professors believed should be taught (disease prevention, contraceptive methods, STIs, pregnancy, abortion, anatomy and physiology, among others); teachers indicated that they have difficulties teaching about sex education, suggesting that they need training/qualification for such an act, while students expect that sex education will actually be taught at their school. We also observed, through the questioning carried out and analysis of the documents of that institution, that subjects related to sex education are approached with low regularity at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Maranhão - Campus São Raimundo das Mangabeiras. As well as that the Educational Guide was extremely important for the researched teachers, because through their answers we noticed that this pedagogical tool will be useful, both in the preparation of their classes, and in the approach to education at school. This fact becomes visible when they stated that they would recommend this product to other professional colleagues who did not participate in the research. And with that, we come to the conclusion that we can achieve the objectives proposed in this research. However, as a caveat, we believe that there is still a long way to go to achieve an emancipatory sex education, where teachers are qualified and able to break taboos and prejudices related to the subject and students are covered with contents that provide greater autonomy regarding the exercise of their sexuality.