CHI 123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sex Education
30 May 2018
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5/22/18 – IMPORTANCE OF SEXUAL EDUCATION
Introduction
• 70s
• Madato seual eduatio i Meia eleeta shools still faes paet’s oppositio ude
arguments that their children are not old enough to be exposed to the subject.
• Though thei o hilde’s daigs, thei eseah poes hilde ae eposed to seualit
at a young age.
Objective
• Exploratory study
• Assess tough hilde’s daigs.
• Childe’s ies o pega.
• Results to poote paet’s aeptae of seual education programs at school.
Methods
• Child-orientated research
• Sample:
o 300 elementary school students.
o B/w 9 and 11 years of age (from grades 5 and 6).
• Results shared w/ school staff and parents during parents meeting.
• Confidentiality of the drawings.
Children were ask to answer, w/ a drawing, the questions:
• What would happen to you, is you were pregnant, and in case of boys, if somebody were
pregnant of you?
o 100% of girls knew about pregnancy.
Results
• Drawings sorted in categories based on gender, age, content.
• Cosideale koledge aout pega, ad the pega oseuees i a hild’s life.
• Highlights concentrated on:
o Childe’s feeligs
o Bulling
o Single parents
o School dropout
o Homelessness
o Etc.
Conclusions
• More risky attitudes than positive.
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