Educación sexual: percepciones, conocimientos y actitudes de los estudiantes de la carrera de Educación Inicial de la Universidad de Cuenca

Abstract

This investigation entitled Sexual Education: Perceptions, Knowledge and Attitudes of the Initial Education students at the University of Cuenca, is considered as the first approach and vision about Sexual Education that university students, who are studying to be educators of boys and girls between 0 and 6 years old, have on it. This research has been addressed from an exploratory descriptive study based on these three main categories: Perceptions, Knowledge and Attitudes about Sexual Education in childhood. Therefore, the study presents a qualitative approach, which collected the information from 16 semi-structured interviews carried out with 4 students from each semester of the Initial Education major at the University of Cuenca. The results show that the opinion and conception that students have on Sexual Education is assertive because it is considered necessary from the first stages of human formation. However, another of the obtained results demonstrates the deficiency of well-founded theoretical knowledge on the issues that surround Sexual Education in early childhood. It can lead to a gap when taking it into professional practice because although there is a positive predisposition, it is not theoretically known how to bring it to the reality of the classroom.