Educación Sexual Integral y equidad educativa: apropiaciones de docentes jóvenes en Argentina
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Comprehensive sex education has become established over the last two decades as one of the most strategic and controversial areas of education policy aimed at expanding rights related to gender, sexuality, health, and reproduction in Argentina. This article presents results from qualitative research exploring the teacher education and workplace experiences of young teachers in Buenos Aires. The work focuses on one emerging category: the meanings, practices, and appropriations of comprehensive sex education. To collect the data, in-depth interviews with a biographical approach were conducted with 14 young teachers and analyzed following grounded theory guidelines with the ATLAS.ti software. Comprehensive sex education is experienced by the participants as a space of personal empowerment, contestation, agency, and mediation that allows them to respond to institutional contexts or the conservative views of older colleagues and students’ family members. These findings offer a valuable contribution to addressing inequalities in Latin American education systems through educational equity policies.
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7215086392