Reflexivity in Sexual Health Pedagogy

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Nyika ◽  
Angellar Manguvo ◽  
Fungai Zinyanduko
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
School Based ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
The Social ◽  
Daunting Task

Youth face a daunting task transitioning the ever-changing contemporary world, which often causes them to engage in self-talking. Employing sociological perspectives of critical realism, Margaret Archer used the term reflexivity to describe the process of self-talking and how it mediates between social structure and human agency or the ability to act. This reflexivity or self-talk is exercised in various ways as determined by a person’s concerns, aspirations, and nature of relationships with the social environment. In this article, we examine this perspective of reflexivity and its implications for school-based sex education. We show how reflexivity intersects with the concept of identity to provide important insights into why youth behave differently in similar social situations. Thus, we argue, there is a need to tailor sex education to students’ sexual behavior identities. It is crucial to situate contemporary sexual health pedagogy within social constructivist and critical theory perspectives because sexual behavior identities are influenced by many sociocultural constructs. The article concludes with examples of empowering sex education instructional strategies.

scholarly journals The Social Aspects of Sexual Health: A Twitter-Based Analysis of Valentine’s Day Perception

Sexes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Andrea Sansone ◽  
Angelo Cignarelli ◽  
Daniele Mollaioli ◽  
Giacomo Ciocca ◽  
Erika Limoncin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Healthcare Research ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Valentine's Day ◽  
The Uk

Sentiment analysis (SA) is a technique aimed at extracting opinions and sentiments through the analysis of text, often used in healthcare research to understand patients’ needs and interests. Data from social networks, such as Twitter, can provide useful insights on sexual behavior. We aimed to assess the perception of Valentine’s Day by performing SA on tweets we collected between 28 January and 13 February 2019. Analysis was done using ad hoc software. A total of 883,615 unique tweets containing the word “valentine” in their text were collected. Geo-localization was available for 48,918 tweets; most the tweets came from the US (36,889, 75.41%), the UK (2605, 5.33%) and Canada (1661, 3.4%). The number of tweets increased approaching February 14. “Love” was the most recurring word, appearing in 111,981 tweets, followed by “gift” (55,136), “special” (34,518) and “happy” (33,913). Overall, 7318 tweets mentioned “sex”: among these tweets, the most recurring words were “sexy” (2317 tweets), “love” (1394) and “gift” (679); words pertaining to intimacy and sexual activity, such as “lingerie”, “porn”, and “date” were less common. In conclusion, tweets about Valentine’s Day mostly focus on the emotions, or on the material aspect of the celebration, and the sexual aspect of Valentine’s Day is rarely mentioned.

Sex Education in the United States

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maggie Scott ◽  
Carolyn S. Marsh ◽  
Jessica Fields
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Sexuality Research ◽  
Sexual Health Education ◽  
School Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sex And Sexuality

The terms sex education, sexuality education, and sexual health education—mentioned throughout this article—all reflect the diverse scholarship that considers how sex and sexuality are taught and learned in different contexts across the lifespan. While people learn about sex and sexuality throughout their lives, most discussion of sexuality education focuses on the lessons learned by children, adolescents, and youth. And, though young people learn about sex and sexuality from various sources, US debates about sexuality education focus on school-based learning. This article considers the social construction of childhood and debates around school-based sex education as well as scholarship that examines other sites of sex and sexuality education. Families, religious and secular communities, media, and the Internet all play significant roles in dispersing information and values surrounding sex and sexuality. These and other sites of sexuality education reflect and contribute to societal and cultural ideologies around sex and sexuality. Research on sexuality education has also considered the ways sex education has the potential to reproduce, as well as contest, societal inequalities. This article focuses on sexuality education in the United States, and while the majority of the scholarship reflects this focus, included are some texts written within other national contexts that have influenced scholarship or thinking about sexuality education research and practice within the United States. While this article does not contain a section explicitly engaging with citizenship, the ways sexuality education has been involved in constructing and policing US national identity comes up in several sections. (The authors thank Jen Gilbert and anonymous reviewers for feedback on earlier versions of this article.)

scholarly journals Opportunities and challenges in school-based sex and sexual health education in Nepal

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
DR Acharya ◽  
ER Van Teijlingen ◽  
P Simkhada
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
Sexual Health Education ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
School Based

This article identifies and addresses opportunities for and challenges to current school-based sex and sexual health education in Nepal. Key literature searches were conducted of electronic databases and relevant web-sites, furthermore personal contact with experts and the hand searching of key journals was included. The review of this literature generated the following challenges: Limitations to teaching including lack of life skill-based and human right-based approach, inappropriate teaching aid and reliance on conventional methods, existing policy and practice, parental/community support, and lack of research into and evaluation of sex education. Diverse methodology in teaching, implementation of peer education programme, partnership with parents, involvement of external agencies and health professionals, capacity building of teachers, access to support and service organisation, and research and evaluation in sex education have been suggested for improving the current practice of sex and sexual health education in Nepalese schools. Key words: Sex education; education; school; adolescence; Nepal DOI: 10.3126/kumj.v7i4.2773 Kathmandu University Medical Journal (2009) Vol.7, No.4 Issue 28, 445-453

Learning How to Share

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Widlok
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Other ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One

This chapter focuses on how humans build up “moral skill,” the ability to act morally in ways that are appropriate to the social situations in which they find themselves regularly. The empirical basis for the chapter is cross-cultural studies of sharing among children and adults and the emergence of a notion of “a rightful and just share.” The spectrum of the societies considered includes those social systems in which sharing is a default strategy that children learn early in life and that is maintained in adults through their everyday practice. The chapter also discusses a tension found in many egalitarian societies, between recognizing merit or accepting inequality on the one hand and leveling inequality or disregarding merit on the other hand. Recent studies from evolutionary psychology and from philosophy are discussed from a perspective of social anthropology that highlights cultural comparison and socially shared everyday practice.

Effectiveness of a school-based social marketing intervention to promote adolescent sexual health

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Na Chou ◽  
I Chin Shen ◽  
Tusi-Ping Chu ◽  
Min-Li Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Health ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Sexual Attitudes ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Junior High Schools ◽  
Sexual Knowledge ◽  
Adolescent Sexual Health ◽  
School Based

Objective: Schools should design holistic sex education programmes to improve sex knowledge and enhance positive sexual attitudes among adolescents. A school-based social marketing sex education programme named Starting from love – Go! Go! Go! was designed. This study determined the effectiveness of the intervention to promote adolescent sexual health in junior high schools in Southern Taiwan. Method: A one-group pretest–posttest design was utilised. Cluster random sampling was used to select participants (seventh-grade students aged 13–14 years) from 24 junior high schools. Results: A total of 1,407 seventh-grade participants completed the survey. Among the 1,407 participants, 714 were boys and 693 were girls. The results revealed that the total average sexual knowledge score of the participants was 1.55 points higher after the interventions, indicating significantly increased sexual knowledge ( p < .001). The sexual attitudes of participants after the interventions significantly improved compared with those beforehand ( p < .001). Moreover, the sexual knowledge and attitudes of participants exhibited a positive correlation ( r = .357, p < .001). Conclusion: The proposed school-based social marketing sex education programme holds the potential to improve sexual knowledge and enhance positive sexual attitudes of the junior high school students and the educational efficacy of sex education with respect to sex-related concerns.

Family Homework and School-Based Sex Education: Delaying Early Adolescents' Sexual Behavior

2013 ◽  
Vol 83 (11) ◽  
pp. 810-817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Grossman ◽  
Alice Frye ◽  
Linda Charmaraman ◽  
Sumru Erkut
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
School Based ◽  
Adolescents Sexual Behavior

Trends in adolescent sexual behavior, health, and education

2018 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-39
Author(s):  
Rafael Heller
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Pregnancy Rates ◽  
Adolescent Sexual Behavior ◽  
School Based ◽  
Behavior Health

Kappan editor Rafael Heller talks with the Guttmacher Institute’s Laura Lindberg, one of the nation’s leading researchers in the field of adolescent sexual and reproductive health, about recent data and trends related to teens’ sexual behavior, contraceptive use, pregnancy rates, and more, including their experiences with school-based sex education.

scholarly journals Locked down apps versus the social media ecology: Why do young people and educators disagree on the best delivery platform for digital sexual health entertainment education?

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 4571-4589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan McKee ◽  
Kath Albury ◽  
Jean Burgess ◽  
Ben Light ◽  
Kim Osman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Entertainment Education ◽  
Sexual Health Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Delivery Platform ◽  
The Difference

This article reports on focus groups exploring the best way to reach young men with vulgar comedy videos that provide sexual health information. Young people reported that they found the means by which the material was presented – as a locked down app – to be problematic, and that it would better be delivered through social media platforms such as YouTube. This would make it more ‘spreadable’. By contrast, adult sex education stakeholders thought the material should be contained within a locked down, stand-alone app – otherwise it might be seen by children who are too young, and/or young people might misunderstand the messages. We argue that the difference in approach represented by these two sets of opinions represents a fundamental stumbling block for attempts to reach young people with digital sexual health materials, which can be understood through the prism of different cultural forms – education versus entertainment.

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