Didactical experiencies with Graeco-Latin narratives and their incorporation in the Integral Sex Education

Abstract

This paper establishes a dialogue between the theoretical and formal proposals for the implementation/application of Integral Sex Education in the classroom (National Law No. 26150, 2006) and a series of records of teaching experiences at high school level in the city of Buenos Aires. During those experiences, we worked with Penelope and Odysseus’ love story, the characters of Circe and the Sirens and Procne and Philomelas’ myth. Our hypothesis is that those narratives from Graeco-latin classic literature, when revisited from a gender perspective, do not only enrich the reading of following works, but also make easier the treatment of sensible topics related to existent forms of inequality between women and men from the same society.