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Utomo, Iwu Dwisetyani; McDonald, Peter; Reimondos, Anna; Utomo, Ariane; Hull, Terence H. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2014
In Indonesian primary schools, sex education is implicitly integrated into various related subjects, such as science, biology, social studies and religion. The technical facts of ovulation and sperm are mentioned in biology, although little or no connection is made between this process and sexual intercourse. By the end of primary school,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Pregnancy, Comparative Analysis
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Goldman, Juliette D. G.; Coleman, Stephanie J. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2013
Primary school teachers are often tasked with puberty/sexuality education for students who are undergoing sexual maturation at ever-earlier ages. This study explores the changing trajectories of the pre-service learning and teaching of primary school puberty/sexuality education at an urban university, including student-teachers' childhood…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Puberty, Sex Education, Preservice Teachers
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Byers, E. Sandra; Sears, Heather A.; Foster, Lyndsay R. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2013
This paper examines factors associated with middle school students' perceptions of the quality of the sexual health education (SHE) they received at school. Participants were 478 predominately White young people (256 girls, 222 boys) in grades 6-8 who completed a survey assessing their demographic characteristics; dating and sexual…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Sex Education
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Duffy, Bernadette; Fotinatos, Nina; Smith, Amanda; Burke, Jenene – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2013
The research reported in this paper investigates why teachers in regional primary schools in the Ballarat region of Victoria, Australia, are choosing to outsource the teaching of sexuality education. A survey was conducted of 29 Year 5 and Year 6 teachers from local primary schools. The teachers provided information about: their confidence in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Sexuality, Elementary School Teachers
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Koo, Helen P.; Rose, Allison; El-Khorazaty, M. Nabil; Yao, Qing; Jenkins, Renee R.; Anderson, Karen M.; Davis, Maurice; Walker, Leslie R. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2011
US adolescents initiate sex at increasingly younger ages, yet few pregnancy prevention interventions for children as young as 10-12 years old have been evaluated. Sixteen Washington, DC schools were randomly assigned to intervention versus control conditions. Beginning in 2001/02 with fifth-grade students and continuing during the sixth grade,…
Descriptors: Surveys, Outcomes of Education, Sex Education, Control Groups
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de Almeida Reis, Maria Helena; Vilar, Duarte Goncalo Rei – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2006
Despite the current legislation requiring sex education as part of the school curriculum in Portugal, great obstacles to its implementation remain. Furthermore, sex education is far from being systematically administered. Thus, the main interest in our project was to validate a scale that measures teachers' attitudes towards sex education. There…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Test Construction, Questionnaires