Sex education in secondary schools / Jennifer Harrison.

"This book will be important reading for secondary teachers of all disciplines. It provides a timely consolidation of educational thinking on sex education in schools today, including a consideration of the role of the health promoting school. It draws together recent research evidence to consider important aspects such as equal opportunities, and school policy and practice, as well as identifying a moral and social framework for sex education." "The practical guidelines are particularly helpful for trainee and newly qualified teachers and provide strategies for introducing, developing and re-visiting key areas of sex education. Some aspects, such as abortion and AIDS education, are highly sensitive areas for teachers to take on, demanding a particular awareness of the surrounding issues and of what might and can be taught in their own school. Crucially, they demand a level of self-awareness and self-confidence for teachers to embark on a variety of appropriate teaching and learning strategies. A range of individual and group activities are provided that are aimed at both beginning and more experienced teachers to stimulate independent learning. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET

1. The evolution of health and sex education
Health, health promotion and health education
Models of health education
2. The health promoting school: creating a context for sexual health
The European network of health promoting schools
Recent government initiatives for sexual health and schools
Examining the aims of sex education
A curriculum framework for health and sex education
Monitoring and reviewing the school's policy for sex education
3. The moral and social curriculum: perspectives for sex education
Creating a values and moral framework in school
Sex education and moral and social development
A suggestion for a moral and social framework: five action points for sex education
4. Equal opportunities: principles for action
Parents, carers and teachers
Young people with special needs
Ethnicity and cultural issues
Issues of age and gender
Gender and sexual identity
Community links
Five principles for action
5. Policy and principles of good practice: interpreting legislation
Background to the present legislation
DfE Circular 5/94: advice on the statutory position
The law: issues for consideration
Issues of confidentiality with pupils
Summary from relevant UK statutes
6. Teaching and learning styles: developing new skills
Different teaching and learning styles
Planning a curriculum
Some starting points for creating a suitable teaching environment
Particular approaches. 7. Developing adulthood: puberty and sexuality
Physical and emotional changes during adolescence
Sexual intercourse
Menstrual cycle, ovulation and menstruation
Sexual feelings, behaviour and identity
8. Reproductive activity: fertilization, pregnancy and abortion
Fertilization
Pregnancy
Termination of an 'unwanted' pregnancy
Assisted reproduction
Birth
9. Personal safety: HIV and other sexually transmitted infections
Teaching about STI's
AIDS: its epidemiology
Establishing a secure biological foundation for teaching about STI's
Planning a sequence of lessons
10. Personal safety: contraception, special needs and sexual abuse
Contraception
Types of contraceptives
Some approaches to teaching about contraception
Pupils with special needs
Child sexual abuse