In the opinion that has come to the government, the Order of Psychologists warns that the National Strategy of Citizenship Education must be “a tool for promoting equality, health and human rights” and not “a missed opportunity to respond to the challenges that children and young people face”. Therefore, it is “essential” that contemplates sex education.
A and It was one of the entities that wanted to contribute, addressing an opinion to the government in which it leaves not only several recommendations, but warnings about the apparent, absence of sex education.
“[É] Essential to ensure that sex education is accessible to all children and young people (without asymmetries for access to content and inequalities between schools and between students), from the early years of schooling ”
But, he points out, “Effective programs”, “explicit, structured, continued and evidence based” are requiredwhich addresses relational and, simultaneous aspects, “anatomy, physiology, sexual and gender diversity, contraceptive methods, prevention of sexually transmitted infections, consent, sexual violence, among others”.
What does not happen, according to the Order, in the government proposal that is in public consultation. The reference to sexuality “is restricted, limited and technically inaccurate”.
This is an example, terms such as “intimacy and privacy and consent” that “briefly mentioned in the 2nd and 3rd cycle of basic education, but in a generic and decontextualized way, without direct reference to sex education as a structuring component of health and citizenship”.
More, it refers to the order: “The very absence of the term ‘sexuality’, by itself, removes visibility and pedagogical intention to sexual education”.
5 proposals presented to the government
the Order suggests what they claim to be “action proposals” so that sex education is integrated and adapted each year of school because, it maintains, “it must be a tool for promoting equality, health and human rights – not a lost opportunity to respond to the challenges that children and young people face their growth”.
They are:
- integrate, at all levels of education, explicit content of sex educationcom progressive learning from the 1st cyclewith objectives (according to those advocated in the law in force) and strategic actions adapted to different ages;
- Integrate, at all levels of education, content of promoting literacy in mental health and development, structured and progressive, of socio -emotional competences, with strategic actions adapted to different ages;
- ensure, in the dimension pluralism and cultural diversity and at all levels of education, that the sexual and gender diversity is treated as a legitimate expression of human experiencecontributing to inclusive educational contexts and respectful human rights;
- integrate, in the pluralism and cultural diversity dimension and at all levels of teaching, approaches, adapted to the different ages, of equality and non-discrimination issues; and,
- rExplicitly echo the role of psychologists as strategic partners in the discipline of Citizenship and Development.
