As representações de discentes sobre o tema sexualidade: em foco o Programa Educacional de Atenção ao Jovem

Abstract

This work is inserted in the group Saberes e Práticas Educativas (Knowledge and Education Practices) Mastership Course in the Education Post Graduation Program of Federal University in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais. This research aims to identify high school students sexuality representations in a public school, located in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, involved in the Education Program for Youth Care (Programa Educacional de Atenção ao Jovem PEAS Juventude). We seek to further characterize, if any, the differences between the representations of the students which were members of the Program and the other high school students in the institution. The research took place in the period between May and December, 2010 and took as inspiration the methodological approach of qualitative case study. Information production took place from the application of a questionnaire to 118 students those, 43 were treated by PEAS Juventude and 75 weren t. We made also direct observations of the Program workshops and classes from three classes of high school. Based on the information obtained, we can consider that the representations of students PEAS Juventude members and nom members are similar when they discourse on sexuality. In relation to activities under the Program, we would like to emphasize that the thematic affectivity and sexuality, youth and citizenship, the workplace and life expectancy were not considered during the proposed activities with multiplication purposes. The teen-agers build and share representations of \"staying\" and \"dating\" that are marked by the criterion of faithfulness and by the differences between a stable relationship of a transient. According to them the \"staying\" relationship is casual, commitment-free, while \"dating\" relationship is serious, enduring and faithful. Pregnancy was represented as a problem by both groups of students surveyed. For them, pregnancy during the teenage youth implies responsibilities and hardships which were considered by them as impossibilities to youth experience that they could have concerning to violence, adolescents share the representation that infidelity justifies physical assault. The students PEAS Juventude members recognize that violence against women is a coward and criminal act, although some of them have said that before the attack is justified retribution. Participants and not-program participants students shared representations biased and fraught with discrimination on homosexuality. Although this thesis does not exhaust the possibilities of further research on this subject, we hope to contribute to discussions about youth sexuality.