Brazilian teenagers’ perspective of sexual education programs in schools: A qualitative participatory study
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Abstract
Evidence points to the worsening of sexual health problems in adolescents due to the lack of sexual education in the family and at school. Sexual education programs with an approach to empowerment, emphasizing gender, rights and their active participation are more effective. This study aims to understand what a school program on sexuality education should be like from the perspective of Brazilian high school adolescents. Qualitative participatory research was operationalized through a Freirean Thematic Investigation, conducted in a public school within a low-income community in the Northeastern region of Brazil. Forty-two high school adolescents, aged between 15 and 18 years, participated throughout the year 2022. The data collected through participant observation and focus groups were analyzed using the Method of Interpreting Meanings. The consequences caused by the scarcity of sexuality education, the lack of dialogue, and the fragility of intergenerational relationships are highlighted. It is reflected that sexuality education is a possible path to transforming reality if initiated in the family environment and continuously extended to the school, with the active participation of adolescents, covering a broad range of contextualized, practical, stimulating topics with gradual complexity, promoted in a relaxed setting, and small groups. A proposal for Critical and Emancipatory Sexuality Education was outlined as an educational action developed by integrating Freirean references, Comprehensive Sexuality Education, and the collective construction of adolescents. A dialogical process of awareness is proposed, to experience safe sexuality in the defense and guarantee of citizenship with a commitment to changing reality towards humanization.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.021 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".