Sexuality contd

Last time

• Whats important & worthwhile spending time on
• Sexuality education and the NZC
• Legalities and consent

Today

• Keeping yourself and your students safe
• Hot topics in sexuality education
• Cultural considerations
• Sexuality education unit planning

Setting up the environment

Holistic and well-planned sexuality education programmes, taught by informed and up to date teachers make a significant different to the learning and overall sexual health of young people (Byers et all, 2013; Poobalan et al, 2009)

Current Issues

• consent and coercion
• sexualisation of young people (particularly girls)
• effect of pornography on young people
• heteronormativity

Pornography and teenagers

Strengths based approach

• engage, empower and inform
• not just focus on risk
• Research suggests abstinence programmes make no difference in affecting sexual decision making (Kirby, 2008, Poobalan et al, 2009)

ERO noted that schools with effective programmes spent between 12-15 hours per year on sexuality education with significantly more time in the senior years

Research also tells us

• 24% 13-17 have had sex
• Of those - only 46% always use condoms to prevent STIs
• NZ still has thrid highest rate of teenage pregnancy in OECD
• Abortion rate has decreased
• Pornography has become increasingly accessible

Cultural considerations - Maori

• Incorporating Matauranga maori
• Encourage the use of whakatuaki, karakia, purakau (legends)
• Link to hauora

Sexuality in the NZC

• Is one of the 7 key areas of learning
• holistic (hauora)
• AOs that relate (see table in guidelines)
• Compulsory to Y10

Cultural considerations - Pasifika

• Often viewed as taboo topic
• Recognise the uniqueness within the Pasifika grouping
• Fa'afine (Samoan), Fakaleiti (Tongan), Akava'in (Cook Islands) - gender identities for males who identify themselves as having the spirit of a women. - Unique categories not necessarily homosexual, bisexual etc

Matching content with stage

With your section

• Tease it out - what sort of things would you be teaching?
• Foreseeable issues/hotspots?
• Areas you would need support in if you had to teach it tomorrow?

A closer look

Assignment 2 & 3