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Reina Evans-Paulson; Christina V. Dodson; Tracy Marie Scull – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
Pornography often depicts traditional gender norms and aggression paired with sexual behaviour. Among adolescents, exposure to pornography is related to unhealthy beliefs about gender, sex and relationships. Critical thinking about media may reduce the internalisation of unhealthy messages in pornography. However, there is a dearth of research…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Grade 10, Sex Education
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Ngidi, Ndumiso Daluxolo; Moletsane, Relebohile – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2019
This article examines the vulnerability of orphans to sexual violence in and around their township secondary school. Using photovoice as a methodology with which to unearth these experiences and narratives, we examine how such an approach might engage the voices of orphans to inform thinking regarding sexual violence. Our analysis was informed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, At Risk Persons, Violence, Sexual Abuse
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Lamb, Sharon; Randazzo, Renee – Journal of Moral Education, 2016
This article presents early evaluation data on the effectiveness of an ethics-based sex education program, the Sexual Ethics for a Caring Society Curriculum (SECS-C), which strives to develop adolescents' thinking about sex so that they might act ethically in relation to other people and reflect ethically upon sexual messages and events in the…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Ethical Instruction, Curriculum Evaluation, Attitude Change
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Reyes, H. Luz McNaughton; Foshee, Vangie A. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
Investigators have identified a number of factors that increase risk for physical and psychological dating abuse perpetration during adolescence, but as yet little is known about the etiology of sexual dating aggression during this critical developmental period. This is an important gap in the literature given that research suggests that patterns…
Descriptors: Prevention, Rape, Risk, Early Adolescents
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Robers, Simone; Zhang, Jijun; Truman, Jennifer – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
Ensuring safer schools requires establishing good indicators of the current state of school crime and safety across the nation and regularly updating and monitoring these indicators. This is the aim of this report. This report is the thirteenth in a series of annual publications produced jointly by the National Center for Education Statistics…
Descriptors: Crime, School Safety, School Surveys, National Surveys
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Jackett, Mark – English Journal, 2007
"Speak," by Laurie Halse Anderson, is one of the most powerful young adult novels to come along in the past decade. It has won numerous awards, including the "School Library Journal" award for "Best Book of the Year," and was a National Book Award Finalist. Despite this acclaim, many English teachers are uncomfortable teaching "Speak" in their…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Novels, Social Problems, Language Arts
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Stallworth, B. Joyce – Educational Leadership, 2006
Although young adult literature is often recommended as a reading bridge to the classics, Stallworth insists that the genre deserves a prominent place in the middle school canon in its own right. She describes several examples from middle school classrooms of how young adult novels can enhance tweens' "life literacy" by both helping them develop…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adolescent Literature, Childrens Literature, Classics (Literature)