Sexual education: when the articulation of multiple discourses allows its inclusion in the curriculum

Authors

  • Jimena Furlani Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795x.2008v26n1p283

Abstract

Is it possible to find space for sexual education in the Brazilian educational curriculum today? To what degree has contemporary society created demands that favor the inclusion of issues related to sexuality, gender and identity policies? What does this historical context and requirement have to say forteacher education courses? This article maintains that the last half of the 20th century was a determining period in the discussion and inclusion of Sexual Education in social and educational realrns in Brazil. According to Michel Foucault, multiple discourses participate in the construction of social knowledge about sexualities and genders. These discourses are articulated by "historic discontinuities" in the processes that define representations aboutthe subjects and their cultural identities. I present a historical mapping ofthe demands of a political, cultural, media, pedagogic, aesthetic and economic order that appear to indicate the thematic and didactic-methodological possibilities that a Sexual Education curriculum can assume today at any educational level.

Author Biography

Jimena Furlani, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis

Graduada em Ciências Biológicas (1992). mestre em Educação (1993) ambos pela UFSC, e doutora em Educação pela UFRGS (2005). Professora da UDESC desde 1994. Mais informações: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4966632079728216

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Published

2009-04-22

How to Cite

Furlani, J. (2009). Sexual education: when the articulation of multiple discourses allows its inclusion in the curriculum. Perspectiva, 26(1), 283–317. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795x.2008v26n1p283

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 1 (2008): Dossiê - Trabalho, Movimentos Sociais e Educação

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