TEACHER KNOW HOW IN EDUCATION FOR SEXUALITY IN BASIC EDUCATION: A PARALLEL BETWEEN PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL

Abstract

The research was aimed 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 was worked in 02 public schools in Coimbra - Portugal and in 02 public schools in Piracicaba, Sao 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 could understand how the education for sexuality was built for them.