Abstract

DENISE REGINA, Quaresma da Silva. Exclusion of Pregnant Adolescents in Schools in Southern Brazil: An Analysis of Sex Education and Its Consequences. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2016, n.57, pp.78-88. ISSN 0123-885X.  https://doi.org/10.7440/res57.2016.06.

This article integrates the results of a study intended to characterize the practices relating to sex education and to describe the treatment that pregnant adolescents receive at these educational institutions, as well as to analyze the evasion of these students, in order to examine the processes of sex education in the schools and academic and social exclusion. Theoretically, we have retrieved some previous contributions to understanding sex education specifically based on gender studies, as well as current studies dealing with the topic. It also presents qualitative results obtained through interviews with directors, pedagogical coordinators and educational guidance counselors in the 30 public elementary schools of the city of Novo Hamburgo/RS, Brazil. The conclusion is that the stigmas surrounding teenage pregnancy marginalize the affected adolescents and limit the willingness officials of educational institutions and of governments to design differentiated policies to facilitate the continuance of their studies during pregnancy and after giving birth. The indifference towards this social problem is one of the main reasons why the vast majority of pregnant teens drop out of school. The study conducted confirmed the social and academic exclusion of these teenage girls.

Keywords : Social exclusion; teenage pregnancy; sex education.

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