CHILDHOOD AND SEXUAL EDUCATION

ETHICAL AND SOCIAL NEED FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31512/19825625.2025.20.36.45-67

Keywords:

Criança, Violência sexual, Educação infantil, Desenvolvimento infantil

Abstract

Childhood and Early Childhood Professionals represent a field of knowledge intersected by numerous other areas, including sexuality. In this article, we reflect on the importance of sexual education from an early age in order to prevent sexual violence. To do so, we aim to analyze the relationship between childhood and sexual education from the perspective of early childhood education professionals in the municipal education network of Belém-Pa. We start with the central question: How do early childhood educators understand childhood and sexual education? We conducted a collaborative research (Ibiapina, 2008) with a qualitative approach, inviting all early childhood education schools in the city to share their knowledge and concerns on the subject. The data collection procedures included cultural and formative dialogical circles. The results reveal understandings woven by the research participants in dialogue with intellectuals in the field who situate childhoods in history (Ramos, 2000), sociology (Sarmento, 2009), sexual education (Figueiró, 2018), and child development (Sanderson, 2005). In short, a pedagogy for preventing sexual violence against children can and should be built in early childhood education in every city, as is being developed in the city of Belém.

Author Biographies

Hanna Tamires Gomes Corrêa Leão Teixeira, Universidade Federal do Amapá (UNIFAP)

She holds a PhD from the Graduate Program in Education at the University of the State of Pará. She also completed a Master's degree in Education from the same program, specializing in Cultural Knowledge and Education in the Amazon, as a scholarship recipient from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). She has specializations in Higher Education Teaching and Educational Management from Faculdade Conhecimento e Ciência (FCC). She earned her undergraduate degree in Pedagogy from the University of the State of Pará (UEPA). Currently, she is a tenured professor in the Pedagogy program at the Federal University of Amapá (UNIFAP). She is a member of the Paulo Freire Popular Education Center (NEP-UEPA). She has worked as a pedagogical coordinator at the Municipal Department of Education and Culture in Belém (SEMEC) and has taught Pedagogy, Law, and Social Work courses at Estácio FAP College (PA). She has supervised scientific initiation projects funded by Faculdade Estácio. She was a student representative on the PPGED - UEPA Collegiate (2018-2020). Her research interests include: Paulo Freire's educational thought, teacher training, popular education, sexuality, violence prevention against children, and Philosophy with Children.

Ivanilde Apoluceno de Oliveira, Universidade do Estado do Pará

Ivanilde Apoluceno de Oliveira completed her postdoctoral research in education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in June 2010. She earned her doctorate in Education (Curriculum) from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo in 2002. In 2001, she undertook a sandwich doctorate at UNAM and UAM-Iztapalapa in Mexico, focusing on ethics with philosopher Enrique Dussel. She holds a master's degree in Popular Education from UFPB and a degree in Philosophy from UFPA. Currently, she is a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Education and a retired full professor from the University of the State of Pará. Since 2018, she has been the coordinator of Procad-Amazônia of PPGED-UEPA-CAPES. She also coordinates the Paulo Freire Popular Education Center at UEPA and is the editor of Revista Cocar. She is a member of the Scientific Editorial Board of the Revista Brasileira de Estudos Pedagógicos (RBEP) at the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP). She coordinates the Paulo Freire Chair of the Amazon and the Amazon Inclusive Education Network. She is a researcher at the National Observatory of Special Education, the Freirean Network of Researchers, the Luso-Brazilian Network for Literacy of Young and Adults, the Interculturality and Social Movements Network (Rede Mover), the Network of Educational Researchers in Mexico (REDIEE), and the International Network of Researchers and Participants on Educational Integration/Inclusion (RIIE). She served as Vice-President of the Northern Region of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Education (ANPED) from December 2019 to December 2021. She coordinated the Graduate Program in Education at UEPA from 2014 to 2021 and was the coordinator of Forpred Norte from 2016 to 2018. She served as Vice-Coordinator of Forpred Norte from October 2015 to October 2016 and as Coordinator of FEPAE from October 2014 to October 2015. She was also the coordinator of the Forum of Education Journal Editors in the North and Northeast regions from 2012 to 2013, and Vice-Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Education at UEPA from 2010 to March 2012. She coordinated the Graduate Program in Education at UEPA from 2003 to 2007, was Vice-Coordinator of the Forum of Coordinators of Graduate Programs in Education in the North and Northeast regions from 2005 to 2007, and served as Director of the Center for Social Sciences and Education at the University of the State of Pará (1996-1998). She was also Vice-Director of the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of the State of Pará (1990-1991) and Coordinator of the Pedagogy Course at the University of the State of Pará (1988-1990). She has been a CNPq Productivity Fellow (PQ2) since 2017. Her work focuses on Education, with an emphasis on Philosophy of Education, Popular Education, and Inclusive Education, involving educational actions with children, youth, and adults. Her Lattes Curriculum frequently highlights terms related to education, special education, education of young people and adults, inclusion, popular education, philosophy, philosophy of education, and ethics in the context of scientific, technological, and artistic-cultural production.

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2025-10-31

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Teixeira, H. T. G. C. L., & Oliveira, I. A. de. (2025). CHILDHOOD AND SEXUAL EDUCATION: ETHICAL AND SOCIAL NEED FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION. Literatura Em Debate, 20(36), 45–67. https://doi.org/10.31512/19825625.2025.20.36.45-67

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Vol. 20 No. 36 (2025): Infâncias e escola: diálogos, tensões e possibilidades no cenário educacional contemporâneo

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