SEXUALITY AND EDUCATION: A NECESSARY STUDY

Abstract

This paper reflects on some studies that address the importance of discourse on sexuality within the school environment. It is in this field of analysis of studies and research that we will address the role of the school as an instrument for training individuals to exercise their citizenship. Even though the topic of sexuality is increasingly included in the dialogue involving some social segments, the school institution still struggles to address it as a great challenge, seen as taboo. Therefore, the study proposed here aims to relate the concepts and ideas attributed to sexuality by some theorists, who emphasize the importance of addressing it within the school environment and the role of the teacher as a mediator in this process of knowledge transmission. The bibliographic survey served as a research method for collecting information and then structuring it for considerations about the development and organization of information. After analyzing the information collected, we concluded that the challenges of discussing sexuality in the classroom arise from the fact that teachers' training itself still leaves gaps in this field of approach to sexuality, and that in addition to teachers' conception of their limits regarding the topic, there is still a challenge posed by families, who reject the introduction of concepts about sexuality into their children's school life. This leaves a web of problems in this context of discussion that run through the trajectory of the subject's integral formation.