SEXUAL EDUCATION AND PROFESSORS OF A MEDICINE COURSE: THE EXPERIENCE IN A CURRICULAR INNOVATION PROPOSAL

Abstract

The present essay is the result of a doctoral research which investigated the understanding of Medical professors about the human dimension of sexuality to reveal processes of sexual education lived in an integrated curriculum proposal, which was oriented by competences and developed by active methodologies. Dialectical and historical Materialism was the guiding paradigm, and it was configured in a case study that used the dialectical method to the analysis of the reality. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were the collection instruments. The content analysis revealed contradictions that represent sexual education processes strongly anchored by repressive paradigms of sexuality added to the paradigm of scientific medicine, which are perpetuated by hidden curricula.