Manta dos afetos: uma abordagem dos afetos e sexualidade na primeira infância

Abstract

This article presents the “Affections Blanket” Project about Sexual Education developed in the 2013-2014 school year with a class of 18 children aged four and five years old, on a kindergarten. Its goals were to determine the priority areas for action in a sexual education program with pre-school children, verify the adequacy of the newly created teaching materials and their usefulness to an approach at home. This project involved the children's families and applied the “action-learning” methodology with participatory and recreational practices. The results have shown clear benefits regarding children’s self-consciousness and allowed the strengthening of interpersonal relationships.