Educação sexual no ensino de Biologia e prevenção da gravidez na adolescência: ouvindo estudantes e falando para professores e professoras

Abstract

The present master's dissertation is part of studies on the education of adolescents and young people. It approaches sex education in the teaching of Biology, considering the plurality of ways of being young and adolescent. It is based on an investigation that sought to analyze the way in the second year of high school students from a school in the municipality of Manhumirim - MG, evaluate the contribution of Biology teaching to the prevention of teenage pregnancy. The research findings supported the development of an e-book for Biology teachers and professors. The choice of the theme is justified by the concern with the high number of teenage pregnancy cases, present in documents from governmental and nongovernmental bodies, national and international. The theoretical framework adopted to support the discussion of the theme is supported by studies in the areas of youth sociology, dialogical education, sexuality and gender. The research was of a qualitative type, and data collection through the Focus Group. The data collected point to the need for comprehensive sexuality education, based on dialogue and the positive construction of sexuality, which allows young people, regardless of gender, to make critical and conscious choices about their future and the full development of their sexuality. The e-book, entitled Sex education: possible? presents the methodological paths taken during the research, the reflections generated from the analysis of results and didactic suggestions about sex education.