ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Teacher Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1595895
This article is part of the Research TopicInteractions and Intersections in Education: Challenges and Trends to foster Learning and WellbeingView all 15 articles
SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC ISSUES FOR TRANSFORMING CONCEPTIONS OF SEXUALITY TEACHING IN THE TRAINING OF NATURAL SCIENCE TEACHERS
Provisionally accepted
- 1South Colombian University, Neiva, Colombia
- 2University of Antioquia, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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Sexuality education in teacher training is often reduced to biological aspects, ignoring its affective, social, and cultural dimensions, this represents a challenge for science education and the preparation of future teachers. This paper presents a qualitative study conducted with 28 trainee teachers of the Science Didactics program of the bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences and Environmental Education. The objective of this research was to know the teachers' tendencies regarding their conceptions about the nature of sexuality, its relationship with natural sciences and the affective dimension of sex education. This, before and after a didactic intervention based on the design and application of socio-scientific questions on sexuality. The results show that, after the didactic intervention, the interest and willingness of teachers to be trained in sex education that includes affective, social, cultural and scientific aspects in their analysis and praxis, involving the context and favoring interdisciplinarity from the science classroom, increases.
Keywords: Health Education, teacher training, science education, socio-scientific approach, science and society
Received: 24 Mar 2025; Accepted: 02 May 2025.
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* Correspondence: Jonathan Andrés Mosquera, South Colombian University, Neiva, Colombia
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