The teaching staff know-how at the education for sexuality in Piracicaba - SP - Brazil and Coimbra - Portugal: the realities of 4 elementary education

• Grant number: 11/12902-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Effective date (Start): October 01, 2011
• Effective date (End): September 30, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Specific topics in Education
• Principal Investigator: Célia Regina Rossi
• Grantee: Marilia Frassetto de Araujo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The project aims to understand the construction of know-how of the teaching staff in Elementary Education II, with teachers from different areas (humanities, sciences and biological sciences) in relation to how the sexuality education is worked in 04 public schools in Coimbra - Portugal and in 04 public schools in Piracicaba, São Paulo - Brazil. As a basis, we use the current legislation in both countries. In Portugal, the law that sustains it is the No. 60/2009 of August 06, establishing the implementation of sex education in primary and secondary schools, both public and private. In Brazil there is the National Curricular Parameters - PCNs, which dealing with sexuality education, aims to mediate information and problematize issues related to sexuality, including attitudes, beliefs, taboos, and values associated with them. The acting of the theme of sexuality in the classroom aims to provide young people the possibility to exercise their sexuality in a responsible, healthy and pleasant way. Then, taking into account the teachers formation (initial or continuing) and through observation and semi-structured interviews with them, which are the focus of this project, we will understand how the education for sexuality is built for them and whether significant elements on the subject with their students are built or not. (AU)