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Ngabaza, Sisa; Shefer, Tamara – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2019
South African schools are tasked with providing sexuality education through the Life Orientation curriculum as a means of challenging continued high rates of HIV, unwanted pregnancy and gender-based violence. While in theory schools are well positioned to provide appropriate knowledge for reproductive health and navigating sexual challenges within…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Foreign Countries, Violence
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Shefer, Tamara; Macleod, Catriona – Perspectives in Education, 2015
Research on sexual practices among young South Africans has proliferated in light of the national imperatives to challenge the spread of HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence and unwanted early pregnancies. In this special issue of "Perspectives in Education" the authors builds on this research by examining how Life Orientation (LO) or Life…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Violence
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Shefer, Tamara; Ngabaza, Sisa – Perspectives in Education, 2015
Young women's sexuality is a contested terrain in multiple ways in contemporary South Africa. A growing body of work in the context of HIV and gender-based violence illustrates how young women find it challenging to negotiate safe and equitable sexual relationships with men, and are often the victims of coercive sex, unwanted early pregnancies and…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Females, Foreign Countries, Social Attitudes