Education since 1996 as a cross-cutting theme that should be linked to the contents of each
school subject in primary and high schools. This paper presents a study of the
implementation of this policy in the primary schools of Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil, based on interviews between January 2011 and April 2012 with 82 teachers working
in those schools. We found that sex education was not being taught as a cross-cutting theme …