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Integrating Health and Education: Psychology's Contributions to the Training of Educators from a Daycare Center in Childhood Sexuality

One of the greatest challenges for educators who work in daycare centers is to deal with the expressions of sexuality a school context. The moral, religious, and hygienists discourses still constitute the meaning of sexuality as a phenomenon linked to the adult world and to reproduction. The article here presented is a case study of in-service training of educators from a daycare center. The work was carried out by members of the Family Health Program of Education Through Work (PET Saúde da Família) at a daycare inserted in the area covered where by the team. After identifying the needs, seven workshops were held whose theoretical-methodological background was Culture Circles (Círculos de Cultura). The results showed that, based on the work, the teachers managed to learn mechanisms for dealing with greater regards to human rights with expressions of childhood sexuality, as well as guiding the parents in their questions related to the topic.

Educators; Psychosexual development; Family Health; Family health program


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