The Absence of Comprehensive Sexual Education in the Chilean Curriculum: An Analysis of Learning Objectives in the Chile’s National Curriculum

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https://doi.org/10.31619/caledu.n60.1453

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Sexuality, Comprehensive Education, Gender Perspective, Human Rights

Abstract

Comprehensive Sexual Education (CSE) is a necessary approach in order to advance towards an education that considers sexual and reproductive rights as an integral part of human rights. However, in Chile, the absence of this approach in sexual education is evident, raising the need to rethink the national curriculum towards a curricular perspective that promotes human rights in a more comprehensive perspective. This study analyzed Chile's national curriculum in relation to CSE. The results of a curriculum review conducted by the Curriculum and Evaluation Unit of the Ministry of Education in 2023 are presented, revealing a very low presence of the CSE approach in the national curriculum and a fragmentation of knowledge, which hinders  progress towards a comprehensive CSE approach.

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2024-07-08

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No. 60 (2024): Revista Calidad en la Educación

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RESEARCH PAPERS

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