Educação científica no ensino fundamental I: a questão da educação sexual

Abstract

This research started from the questioning: “What teaching strategies, using children’s literature, would create situations of development for a high-quality sex education?” Thus, it resulted in a work proposal for educators to develop sex education, aided by children’s literature, for the development of Scientific Literacy. The investigation was guided by the following reflections: Sex education; Federal, State and Municipal Legislation; The role of teachers and schools in sex education; Social consequences of sex education in the early years of regular primary schooling; Scientific literacy; Science teaching; Children’s literature. The objective is to propose a teaching strategy on sexuality contemplated in the children’s literature and provided for by law in the municipal curricular guidelines. For this, two investigation steps were carried out. Step 1 was attended by 144 teachers from the municipal public network, and step 2 was attended by 27 students from 3rd grade, 16 students from 4th grade and 28 students from 5th grade. Work proposals helped by the children's literature were developed. Guided by the analysis of the interventions, a notebook of guidelines was developed for the teacher. The results of the study point to literature as a facilitator of the teaching and learning process. Considering the issues involved in this matter, this can be a resource that can achieve the goals of Sexual Education.