Tiago Petinga / Lusa
The Minister of Education, Science and Innovation, Fernando Alexandre
“HSpecific projects in schools, ”says Minister. Public consultation will be extended. You can also participate in the public consultation that wants to change the discipline of citizenship and development.
The Minister of Education assured on Wednesday that the contents related to sex education will not disappear from curricula, despite the reduction in the discipline of citizenship and development.
“It is a matter that is developed in various disciplines, in an interdisciplinary way, There are specific projects in schools”Said Fernando Alexandre, adding that“ it is not true ”that sex education has been excluded from both citizenship and development and school curricula in general.
Minister devalues “essential learning”
One of the main news of the new program is the reduction of content related to sexuality and sex education, a change that has generated controversy in recent days, with teachers and political parties, who accuse the government of “giving in to the far right and imposing a“ setback ”of 40 years.
“It would be a huge setback if education for sexuality came out of schools and the formation of students. And if that was true, the clamor that arose would make sense,” said the minister.
Recalling the 2009 Law that establishes the regime of application of sex education in school, Fernando Alexandre assured that These contents will not fail to be taught And, referring to concrete to the discipline of Citizenship and Development, he stressed that essential learning-list from which sex education was removed-“are a very synthetic description” of the subjects worked in the discipline.
“They are referred to there and, of course, can now be densified in curricula”He added.
The concern is another
On the other hand, the ruler insisted on the need to ensure that teachers who will teach citizenship and development have adequate training and acknowledged that the teacher of a discipline cannot teach all the predicted content, suggesting that class directions manage so that each subject is taught by teachers with the most appropriate training or even civil society partners, such as higher education institutions or associations.
“My great concern as Minister of Education (…) is how we will guarantee, in those subjects that we all consider that are essential for the formation of citizens, that actually our students will be able to have these learning,” he added.
Public consultation should be extended
The public consultation to the advising documents of the discipline started on Monday, but the population complained of technical failures, which led Minister Fernando Alexandre AA to admit the possibility of extending the term of participation, currently scheduled until 1 August.
The initiative aims to collect suggestions for the revision of the National Strategy of Education for Citizenship and the essential learning of the discipline.
To participate in public consultations, you must read the two procedures first – and – and must then fill out the due form.
