Comprehensive Sex Education and Comprehensive Environmental Education: reflections on experiences and practices in formal and community educational contexts

Abstract

This article aims to provide an analytical account of the workshop "Comprehensive Sexual Education (ESI) and Comprehensive Environmental Education (EAI): reflections on experiences and practices in formal and community educational contexts", which was held in June 2022 in the framework of the call for continuing education courses of the Secretariat of Extension of the FFYH-UNC. This workshop was aimed at teachers from educational institutions of different levels of formal education and popular educators in charge of educational trajectories in popular neighborhoods. The objective was to share knowledge and strategies for the approach of CSE and CSE in these contexts and to elaborate concrete and situated intervention proposals.
The social relevance of CSE and CSE require that we multiply the instances of learning and reflection of the contents that are linked to them, and for that we need to think and design them among teachers, families, popular educators and researchers, that is to say, in a communitarian way. Building new rationalities and ways of thinking with others and with/in nature cannot be a fragmented task or reduced to the school curriculum, but it is necessary to generate instances where experiences are exchanged and dialogues of knowledge are produced among all of us who are part of education, and in this task the university has a key role from the integrality of its functions: education, extension and research.
In the first part of the paper we present a theoretical reflection on the approach proposed in the workshop from interdisciplinarity, integrality, transversality and the perspective of human rights. In the second part, we describe the experiences in each meeting, as well as the methodology adopted in them. Finally, by way of closing, we share a balance of the experience and analyze the challenges for future instances in the framework of university extension.