Abstract

PECORARI, Eliane Porto Di Nucci; CARDOSO, Luciana Roberta Donola  and  FIGUEIREDO, Tathiana Fernandes Biscuola. Sexual orientation in primary school: case study. Cad. psicopedag. [online]. 2005, vol.5, n.9, pp. 00-00. ISSN 1676-1049.

Sex orientation means education about the physical processes and emotions involved in sex, which has the purpose of developing social, cognitive and emotional aspects of the person. Sex education is important adolescence because those aspects are in development during this phase. This present paper has the objective of evaluating how sex education programs are being developing in school contexts. The research comprised public and private schools from Franco da Rocha and Caieiras cities. An interview with the principals and pedagogical coordinators was realized to obtain the data. The results obtained with this research show that 66,6% of public schools and 60% of private schools do not provide sex education. The schools, which provide sex education, have their programs inferior to the ones proposed, even inferior to the National Curriculum Parameters (2002) (Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais). In conclusion, public and private schools do not develop sex education programs. The deficient development of these programs involves factors related to the subject, team, grade in which the program is started, evaluation and measurement of results.

Keywords : Adolescence; Sex education; Scholarly institution.