A escola no processo de enfrentamento da violência sexual contra crianças e adolescentes

Abstract

The aim of this article is to highlight the role of the school in the process of confronting violence against children and adolescents. Historically analyzing the phenomenon of sexual violence against children and adolescents in the national and regional panorama, highlighting public policies aimed at combating sexual violence against children and adolescents at the local level and the role of schools in this process. It is known that the school environment goes beyond just learning the contents proposed by the curriculum. It is also a space for reproduction, from an early age, of discrimination and violence, considering different social markers, such as race, class, gender, sexuality, among others. It is from this understanding that reflections on transformative educational strategies are necessary and urgent to think about the contents, discussions, experiences and teaching practice in the classroom. These are fundamental questions that are directly linked to the experiences of and of students. This absence of talks about violence or about all types of violence against children and adolescents in the contents and textbooks highlights the weakness of our schools in dealing with this issue more directly. The flaws, in this context, still persist, and when they are mentioned, they are far from representing the plurality of classes, ethnicities, religions, generations, sexualities and identities, being either the representation of a pattern, or the exoticization of everything that is beyond it . The told version remains male, straight and white. And what is not so, is left aside without much importance. These discussions will be presented here in this article, bringing the contributions of several authors to support the proposed theme, and using bibliographical research to elucidate the questions suggested here.