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Direct linkKing, Bruce M. – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2012
Considerable progress has been made in the last three decades in contraceptive technology and the treatment of sexually transmitted infections. However, education of the nation's youth about sexual health issues has been less successful. Most parents remain silent on the topic of sexuality while states argue over the curriculum. As a result, a…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Youth, Comprehensive School Health Education
Download full textQuincy, Michael L. – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this review paper, "Adolescent Sexual Education: Designing Curriculum That Works", is to present some basic curriculum necessities for developing an in-school sexual education program that results in decreasing the number of teenagers initiating sex, thus reducing the number of teen pregnancies and cases of sexually transmitted…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Curriculum Development, Adolescents, Sexuality
Smith, William; Wagoner, James – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2009
President Barack Obama has proposed an end to abstinence-only-until-marriage funding as Americans have known it for the better part of the last decade. This marks a significant change in direction, one that finally brings science and evidence back into government policy. His leadership on this new direction will be essential in the coming…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Marriage, Public Policy, Presidents
Bennett, Jeffrey A. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2008
This essay critically engages challenges made against the federally mandated deferral policies which prohibit "men who have sex with other men" from donating blood. I argue that "passing" and "protest" are dialogically dependent on one another as two separate but related tactics of resistance. Drawing on interview materials from men who have both…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Males, Federal Regulation, Sexuality
Mutonyi, Harriet – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2007
This article looks at the importance of student-generated analogies, metaphors, and similes as an entry point into their understandings of HIV/AIDS. In addition, it argues that analogies, metaphors, and similes are good tools for eliciting students' prior understandings of HIV/AIDS, especially matters relating to sexuality that are often…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Prior Learning, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sexuality
Ahmed, Syed Jamil; Heddon, Dee; Mackey, Sally – Research in Drama Education, 2007
This collection of three articles represents the "Points and Practices" section of this month's issue of "Research in Drama Education." The first article, "'Fitting the Bill' for 'Helping Them.' A Response to 'Integrated Popular Theatre Approach in Africa' and 'Commissioned Theatre Projects on Human Rights in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Drama, Community Action
Peer reviewedKoop, C. Everett – Issues in Science and Technology, 1987
Calls for more education as the immediate preventative measure against acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Discusses the known ways that AIDS is transmitted and cautions that many innocent people may also contract the disease. Promotes the presentation of accurate and personally sensitive information to children. (TW)
Descriptors: Disease Control, Disease Incidence, Educational Cooperation, Epidemiology
Ngoshi, Hazel Tafadzwa; Pasi, Juliet Sylvia – Children's Literature in Education, 2007
The Ministry of Education and Culture in Zimbabwe has introduced an intervention into the school curricula to complement the already existing mechanisms in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The literature in this programme is said to be designed to develop children's knowledge of HIV/AIDS and to maximise both individual and community commitment to the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Interaction, Foreign Countries
Nelson Richard P.; And Others – 1990
This guide is aimed at improving health services for people with developmental disabilities by educating people presently training as health practitioners and persons working in community service programs. It contains information on health care needs of people with developmental disabilities and recommendations for health care practices adapted…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Advocacy, Children
Morgensen, Scott – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2008
In this article, the author examines how activist media by Native AIDS organizers promoted anticolonial analyses of AIDS, gender, and sexuality as a contribution to scholarship on Native responses to AIDS. His discussion centers on the organizers who created media as authorities on and in their media. In contrast to recent accounts that popularize…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Audiences, Homosexuality, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Peer reviewedIssues in Science and Technology, 1987
Contains excerpts from a special study on the AIDS epidemic by the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences. Presents an overview of the problem, outlines educational needs and public health measures, and identifies future research needs. (ML)
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Diseases, Health Education, Public Health
Robenstine, Clark – 1994
This essay contends that the school as a social institution must be challenged to initiate or strengthen instruction on human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), as school instruction is potentially one of the most effective and efficient means for achieving a reduction in the rate of future HIV infection. The…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Disease Control, Disease Incidence
Ashcraft, Catherine – Teachers College Record, 2006
Teens encounter a barrage of messages about sexuality in popular culture--messages that shape their identities and schooling experiences in profound ways. Meanwhile, teen sexuality, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) increasingly arouse public panic. To date, however, schools do little to help teens make sense of their…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Contraception, Curriculum, Adolescents
Mehlman, Natalia – History of Education Quarterly, 2007
By December 1968, the Anaheim Family Life and Sex Education (FLSE) program, celebrated since its formal introduction in 1965 as one of the most progressive in the nation, was being smeared as communistic and perverse. Local activists in this Orange County city had been congregating in hotel rooms and homes, screening cautionary films for the…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Family Life, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Social Change
Rofes, Eric – 1995
This paper reviews past and current Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) education and prevention efforts, describes three specific phases of efforts, and analyzes AIDS education and prevention in relation to emancipatory models of education. First the paper reviews data measuring the transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) among…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adults, Community Education, Democratic Values
