Resumen

CALVILLO PAZ, Claudia R  y  RODRIGUEZ CABRERA, Aida. Sexual education for indigenous students of a rural community in Guatemala. Rev Nov Pob [online]. 2014, vol.10, n.20, pp.21-30. ISSN 1817-4078.

Education about sexual health is very important and of urgent necessity for Guatemala, if taking in consideration existent indicators about pregnancies, sexual transmission illnesses and maternal mortality in adolescents. The objective of the paper is to expose evaluations on the ways and subjects of sexual education for the students of Santa Cruz Chinautla 's Rural Basic Institute. A questionnaire self administrated was used as method, we also carried out a nominal group, group and in depth interviews. Among the main results, the students prefer to receive information about sexual education in the institute from the teachers but also including the parents. They recognize that in occasions they acquire risky sexual practices from friends, television, magazines, internet and cellular telephones. The parents and the leaders of the community recognize the lack of knowledge and the students' problems regarding their sexuality and they value to the institute and their teachers like the most suitable to educate them. The results are a product of the inheritance of racism and racial discrimination in that the adolescents indigenous Guatemalan have been developed that it limits, and in occasions it impedes, the knowledge and the perception of their real necessities as regards sexual and reproductive health. The obtained information is very useful, it shows the necessity of other works linked with variables as gender, socioeconomic level, ethnic identity, contact grade and assimilation to the mixed-cagey culture, because all they influence in the representations and sexual practices of the adolescents indigenous Guatemalan.

Palabras clave : sexual education; education ways; adolescents.

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