Didactic proposal for the prevention of adolescent pregnancy at the “Leonardo Maldonado Pérez” public school

Abstract

Adolescence is characterized by being a stage of life in which risky behaviors usually occur; however, the level of affectation due to the consequences of said behaviors is related to various factors, one of them and perhaps the most important. It is the lack of comprehensive training education. Starting from this premise, this investigative article will focus its attention on the early and irresponsible initiation of sexual relations, one of the adolescent risk behaviors that implies individual and collective affectation at a psychological, socioeconomic and health level, leading to other equal or greater impact, such as sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy. For this reason, after having developed the research that determines a direct relationship between teenage pregnancies and poor sexual education in the “Leonardo Maldonado Pérez” public school. This article presents a didactic proposal, which will promote a comprehensive sexual education program, whose objective is to develop intelligence and emotional health, in such a way that adolescents, students in the tenth year of HBGE, are capable of making conscious decisions about their sexuality. The “participatory action research methodology” was used, starting from a diagnosis to subsequently develop a proposal and finally validate it by a group of specialists.