Educação sexual e homofobia: uma percepção de respeito à diversidade sexual em uma escola de ensino médio na cidade de Pinheiro - MA

Abstract

Homophobia is routinely present in society, especially at school, where different personalities and genders come together in the same environment. In which, the school is a crucial point for work aimed at sex education and with regard to the fight against homophobia, as it has the social function of training young people who are able to live in a democratic and diverse society. In this sense, the general objective of this research was to promote awareness about homophobia through Sexual Education actions in a teaching institution in the municipality of Pinheiro - MA. Therefore, this research is an exploratory quali-quantitative study, structured in three components: (I) data obtained from interviews, documents, observations, recordings and records; (II) the means used to organize the data that were collected; (III) and the records of verbal and written reports, in which it focused on the application for managers and students of the 1st and 2nd grades of High School of the two shifts of the Federal Institute of Maranhão. Thus, through the data obtained, it is possible to perceive the mechanisms used by managers to be used to face homophobia in the school environment and the methodologies applied for teaching sex education in the classroom with students. In addition, educational barriers were identified that the educational institution encounters in its insertion of the theme within the school environment, thus causing deficits in relation to this agenda. In this sense, the respondents participating in the survey pointed out that although there are no serious cases within the school, it is not a totally safe place for sexual freedom either. Therefore, it is evident the need to carry out activities and/or projects that focus on sex education and the problems that homophobia causes in the lives of adolescents.