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The development of the pedagogical content knowledge about the sexuality in teachers' practice

This article presents the results of a survey carried out to understand the development of "pedagogical content knowledge" in the teaching of sexuality amongst teachers who work with this topic. Using the phenomenological approach, individual interviews were carried out with three female Elementary School teachers working in Uberlândia municipal school system, in Minas gerais State, Brazil. By analyzing these interviews, it was possible to reach some conclusions regarding teachers' professional development and its relationship with effective teaching.

Sexual Education; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Phenomelogical


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