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The game as strategy for approach to sexuality with adolescents: theoretical-methodological reflections
Vânia de Souza1, Maria Flávia Gazzinelli2, Amanda Nathale Soares3
1Department of Maternal-Child Nursing and Public Health Belo Horizonte, Nursing School, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Objective:
To describe the Papo Reto [Straight Talk] game and reflect on its theoretical-methodological basis.
Method:
Analytical study on the process of elaboration of the Papo Reto online game, destined to adolescents aged 15-18 years, with access to the Game between 2014 and 2015.
Results:
the interactions of 60 adolescents from Belo Horizonte and São Paulo constituted examples of the potentialities of the Game to favor the approach to sexuality with adolescents through simulation of reality, invention and interaction. Based on those potentialities, four thinking categories were discussed: the game as pedagogic device; the game as simulation of realities; the game as device for inventive learning; and the game empowering the interaction.
Conclusion:
By permitting that the adolescents take risks on new ways, the Game allows them to become creative and active in the production of senses, in the creation of their discourses and in the ways of thinking, feeling and acting in the sexuality field.
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