Política pública de educación sexual en chile: actores y tensión entre el derecho a la información vs. la libertad de elección

Essau Figueroa Silva

doi:10.5354/0717-8980.2012.25861

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Sex education policy in Chile: Actors and tensions between theright to information versus freedom of choice

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Essau Figueroa Silva Universidad de Concepción

Vol. 10 No. 20 (2012)

https://doi.org/10.5354/0717-8980.2012.25861

Abstract

This paper analyzes how sex education public policy implementation in Chile has turned into a historic conflict, determined by the existence of tensions between those who defend right to information and those that claim freedom of choice. Several actors have been part of this discussion, limited to the field of values education, attempting to legitimize its points of view regarding the diverse elements associated to the subject, such that the launch of a new sex education policy (2010) has raised tensions and added new elements to the debate. We conclude that only two actors tend to define asymmetrically the debate's result; and this would be the probable cause of the failure of different initiatives and models of sex education implemented in Chile.

Keywords:

Values education, sex education, public policy, actors, conflict.

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Figueroa Silva, E. (2012). Sex education policy in Chile: Actors and tensions between theright to information versus freedom of choice. Estado, Gobierno Y Gestión Pública, 10(20), pp. 105/131. https://doi.org/10.5354/0717-8980.2012.25861