Discomfort and resistances to the challenges of Comprehensive Sex Education. An analysis of the positioning of physical education teachers

In the area of Physical Education (PE), the proposal of Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) questions the traditional gender division and challenges strongly institutionalized traditional educational practices, in order to include different creative and expressive languages that promote a diversity of body practices. he following work presents the results of an investigation carried out in Cordoba that investigated the teaching resistance against the implementation of the CSE. Discursive materials collected in collective discussions between PE teachers produced in the framework of training and in individual interviews were analyzed. In general, the resistance around the mixed class responds to the perception of significant differences between men and women, the contradiction between mixed school sport and hegemonic sport, the difficulty in developing didactic constructions and erotic reading of language and students' body communication. hese resistances, in most cases, show lack of knowledge about the approach to CSE. The study concludes with the need to dismantle teachers' assumptions about the body, gender and the meaning of PE in school, and advance in training on critical approaches that open this curricular space to the CSE proposal.