The right to sex education? Between discourses of salvation and the lack of knowledge
Abstract
The difficulties of implementing sex education in educational systems come partially from the problem of identifying suitable underlying principles to give this education sufficient direction and purpose. In the last decades, the language and logic of human rights, under the paradigm of health care and sexual violence, have attempted to fill this vacuum and attend to the many questions that are generated. This present article critiques the philosophy behind this approach and addresses the limitations it imposes on organized and coherent teaching about sexuality in schools. It is argued that the current discourses about sex education that overstress social pragmatism move us away from a foundation based on the intrinsic value of knowledge, maybe the only way to develop this project.Downloads
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