Orientação sexual na escola na percepção dos educadores: contribuição da enfermagem

Abstract

Introduction: The Brazilian education, from the year 1996 presents the National Curriculum Guidelines, cross-cutting issues. Among them is sexual orientation, as a possibility of integration between the areas of health and education, consider the school as an opportunity for the construction of different interdisciplinary and intersectoral approaches. Thus, this study presented the following research question: what is the perception of educators on the topic of sexual orientation in a school in the city of Chapecó / SC? Objective: To identify the perception of educators on the topic of sexual orientation in school. Method: qualitative research; exploratory descriptive. The scenario was a public school in the city of Chapecó and had as subjects, 15 educators. Inclusion criteria were: educators who taught school for elementary and / or middle for teenagers from 10 to 19 years old. Have been adopted as exclusion criteria: educators who were doing holiday or were on leave. The field stage consisted of two phases: the approach and ambiance, which was held from conversation with the coordination and subsequently with educators and participation between classes; and the production of data were collected through semi-structured interviews audiogravada. The completion of data production occurred from September to October 2014, after being approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Southern Frontier / Campus Chapecó by 753,432 protocol number. The project has complied with the ethical principles of Resolution 466/2012 of the National Council of Health Ministry of Health The collected data were analyzed according to Bardin's content analysis that involved three steps:. The pre-analysis; exploration of the material and the processing of results and interpretation. Results: In this analysis there were two analytical categories: perception of sexual orientation in the school as a social construction of gender and perception of sexual orientation in school as a solo ever trod. The first analytical category could notice that, when asked about the subject sexual orientation educators identified as gender issue as to recovery of the body. Sexual diversity is thought through biological approach. In the second analytical category, it was noted that educators feel unprepared and has difficulty to address sexual orientation in the classroom. This unpreparedness, as educators, are seen by the lack of preparation in the undergraduate, lack of training, lack of interdisciplinarity and little family involvement in developing this theme at home. We conclude that initiatives are needed to make the most efficient sexual orientation in schools as projects that involve the family, which often is not prepared to talk about sexuality; bring new materials to more clearly address sexual orientation in the classroom, providing awareness of time for educators to add health professionals, as the example of professional nurses in collective discussions.