Convergencias y divergencias de sentido en los talleres de Educación Sexual Integral de la formación docente

Abstract

Following national curriculum parameters, since 2011 “Sexual Education Workshops” have been included in general teachers training for preprimary and primary education in Buenos Aires City. As the field is basically multidisplinary, there has been a wide variety in academic profiles of teachers in charge of those areas. This includes convergent and divergent perspectives, topics and pedagogical approaches. There are tensions among “normative approaches” on gender and sexualities, that, even from a democratizing purpose, lead to a “right/wrong” scheme, “didacticizing approaches” leading to analyze curriculum topics and “critical approaches” that emphasize the incorporation of the hegemonic social and cultural gender issues. This dynamics are understood as a characteristic of a new and in-building field. This article is a product of an on going participatory action research, from a Gender and Cultural Studies approach, aiming to explore the gendered meanings under curriculum that shape experience in teachers training institutions.