La educación sexual para niños y niñas, y su implementación en contextos escolares

Abstract

Sexuality is a fundamental aspect human beings life’s because it is present in each stage of their evolutionary development. Despite this, educating children in sexuality within Latin American school contexts has generated strong disputes between different social actors that have led sexuality education to adopt different teaching approaches in each educational setting. For this reason, the current monography aims to explore how the implementation of sexuality education for children has been provided in school contexts in Latin America. In order to meet this objective, an exhaustive documentary research was carried out in several bibliographic information sources, including books, academic articles, studies, research, and publications of numerous individual authors and international organizations as well. Subsequently, the information found was compared, analyzed, and contrasted in order to proceed with the drafting of each chapter. This process made it possible to understand that although various programs, laws, reforms, and policies have been developed to propose the teaching of sexuality education from an integral approach, in the reality of Latin American schools, essentialist approaches are implemented. Those approaches offer a reductionist view of sexuality. Finally, it was revealed that in Latin American context, there is still a lack of sexuality education policies and programs aimed to reach children