Teachers' understandings of early years about human sexuality in the context of scientific literacy

• Autor(a) principal: de Mesquita, Adriano Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Educitec
• Texto Completo: https://sistemascmc.ifam.edu.br/educitec/index.php/educitec/article/view/1151
• topic: Sexualidade; Cultura científica; Formação docente; Sexuality; Scientific culture; Teacher training

About the thematic of “Teacher Training Processes”, this text presents a summary of a Master's research, carried out in 2018, which investigated human sexuality in the perspective of scientific literacy, with teachers from the early years of Elementary School (“Ensino Fundamental”, in Brazilian educational system). The aim in this section is to analyze the understandings of teachers of the early years, concerning the theme of human sexuality in the context of scientific literacy. The research occurred in a Elementary School in the city of Belém–PA and counted on the participation of four teachers: multipurpose, effective, licensed as teachers and working in classes from 1st to 5th years. The empirical material was produced through a questionnaire, pedagogical meetings, daily interactions and semi-structured interviews. In the analysis of the understandings of the teachers, Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA) was used (MORAES; GALIAZZI, 2016). As a result of the analysis, it was evidenced school thoughts and practices, related to human sexuality contents, with traditional outlines, out-of-context of social and cultural aspects, and which they are still based on biological standards, without focusing on sexual diversity and its consequences in social relations, also without being related to real effective situations of scientific literacy; it is caused by little knowledge or incipient ways of this approach in class, still a practice under construction. This study shows to the importance of understanding human sexuality in all dimensions (biological, social, emotional, cultural and religious) and scientific literacy as a new concept of great importance, and that needs to be linked to the social practices of students in the early years of Elementary School.