Guardian, 13 September 2016 Sex education in schools worldwide is so “out of touch” with pupils’ experiences that they find it irrelevant and switch off, research of young people in 10 countries (including Australia) shows. Many students find lessons about sex and relationships negative, moralistic and too scientific to help them deal with the feelings and situations they are encountering...
Family Planning NSW, 2016 Body Talk is a youth-friendly, stand-alone website that complements and links to the Family Planning NSW website. Body Talk provides information about the body, puberty, relationships, contraception and safe sex in an easy to use, responsive design format. This website has the ability to be used autonomously or as a teaching and learning aide for educators, health...
Refinery 29, June 16, 2016 3:40 PM Kenyan-born and Tanzania-based sexual health educator Maureen Oduor knows that soda doesn’t prevent pregnancy, but not all of the young women she counsels do. “In Kenya, adolescents believe that drinking a glass of Coca-Cola soda before and after sex can prevent a girl from getting pregnant,” she tells me. In Tanzania, meanwhile, “people...
The Guardian, Wednesday 15 June 2016 18.00 AEST There are 1.8 billion people aged 10 to 24 today, but how many of those are getting comprehensive sexuality education? And why, in 2016, are there still so many taboos around sex? Liz Ford discusses what young people should be taught, when sex education should start and asks, what does comprehensive sexuality education actually mean? She visits the...
Bruce Johnson, Lyn Harrison, Deb Ollis, Jane Flentje, Peter Arnold, & Clare Bartholomaeus, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 2016. The Engaging Young People in Sexuality Education (EYPSE) research project addresses two questions: 1. What are young people’s views on school-based sexuality and relationships education? 2. In what ways could sexuality and relationships education be improved? This...
NSW Government, 2016 This website lets you access up to date resources, information and professional learning to support teaching K-6 sexuality education and 7-12 sexual health education. It is aimed at teachers in NSW but there are also content which can be used more generally or adapted for other jurisdictions. Contents: Teaching sexuality and sexual health education Creating a supportive...