Abstract

ZEMAITIS, Santiago. Hacia una pedagogía sexual en la sub-región. Redes, disputas, teorizaciones y modelos pedagógicos en el campo de la educación sexual latinoamericana (1960-1980). Hist. educ. anu. [online]. 2023, vol.24, n.1, pp.6-51.  Epub July 31, 2023. ISSN 2313-9277.

This article explores and learns about the initiatives, networks, consensus, disputes and pedagogical models that allowed the problematization of sex education as a public policy between 1970 and 1980. For this, it is proposed to reconstruct some background of initiatives and their key agents of what which will be referred to here as the regional and expert field of Latin American sex education. For this, the situation of the Latin American region in the middle of the 20 th century is initially contextualized, with emphasis on the place of development ideas and some international financing organizations in the promotion of population education and family planning programs. Next, some pioneering initiatives in Argentina to promote sex education are reviewed, such as the Argentine Association for Family Protection (1966), the Rosario Association for Sex Education and Sexology (1976) and the Orientation Center for Family and Community Life (1964). From there, it will be interesting to map some agents who were decisive in establishing relationships and connections with other countries. Third, three regional initiatives are explored, such as the Latin American Office for Sex Education and the Regional Committee for Sex Education for Latin America and the Caribbean, both founded in 1975, and the Latin American Federation for Sexuality and Sex Education created in 1980. These organizations were the arena of struggles for the attributions and meanings around sex education, particularly its inclusion in state and private programs and policies. In the fourth and last section, the conceptualizations that some participants in this field carried out in dialogue with some theories more typical of the pedagogical field are reconstructed. The thematizations about the educational fields that sex education are analyzed there, and the construction of specific conceptual models of the field of sex education, such as the moralist, biologist, mechanistic, erotic, pathologist, dialogical-conscientizing and integral. With these conceptualizations, those who defended sex education as an educational policy tried to leave behind the silences and reductions that involved the moral, scientific, and pedagogical meanings around sexuality, appealing to the construction of innovative concepts to promote a modernizing sexual pedagogy for the sub-region.

Keywords : Sex education; comprehensive education; experts; pedagogical models; Latin America..

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