Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-02-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:58:18Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 oliveira_fg_me_bauru.pdf: 736264 bytes, checksum: b2b3c373a1cbfa2873ccbdeb84470d89 (MD5) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / A sexualidade é um fenômeno complexo e até o momento não existe uma teoria que explique, por si só, como ocorre o desenvolvimento da sexualidade, uma vez que o estudo da sexualidade necessita de uma visão multidisciplinar, envolvendo os aspectos biológicos, sociais e psicológicos do desenvolvimento. Partindo de um referencial teórico da análise do comportamento, pode-se considerar que o comportamento sexual, assim como qualquer outro comportamento, é determinado pelos três níveis de seleção, ou seja, é resultante de uma carga genética, somado a um histórico de aprendizagem e ao contexto onde o indivíduo está inserido. Este estudo descritivo teve como objetivo investigar, por meio de relatos de jovens homossexuais e heterossexuais, as opiniões pessoais sobre o desenvolvimento da sexualidade e da orientação afetivo-sexual na infância e adolescência. Participaram oito pessoas com idades entre 22 e 28 anos, sendo quatro homens e quatro mulheres. A coleta de dados ocorreu por meio de entrevistas e os relatos obtidos foram analisados em conteúdo resultando nas seguintes categorias: Categoria 1 - relatos sobre o período da infância e adolescência, evidenciando a influência dos modelos comportamentais no desenvolvimento das relações sociais afetivas; Categoria 2 - relatos sobre a relação com familiares, marcada por conflitos, com vínculos afetivos estabelecidos tanto com a figura da mãe quanto a do pai, além da relação com os demais familiares; Categoria 3 - educação sexual: relatos sobre a educação familiar e escolar e a influência na sexualidade, destacando a influência dos aspectos culturais, além das contingências de reforçamento no desenvolvimento humano, além de levantar a participação da escola quanto influência no processo do desenvolvimento humano e, consecutivamente, no desenvolvimento sexual; Categoria 4 - relatos sobre sexualidade... / Sexuality is a complex phenomenon, and there isn't a theory that explains, in itself, as is the development of sexuality, simnce the study of sexuality requires a development. From a analysis of behavior view, it can be considered that sexual behavior, as well as any other behavior, is determined by the three levels of selection, or is the result of a genetic load, coupled with a history of learning and the context in which the individual belongs. This descriptive study aimed to investigate, through reports of young homesexuals and heterosexuals, personal opinions on the development of sexuality and sexual-affective orientation in childhood and adolescence. Eight people participated, aged between 22 and 28 years, four men and four women. The data was collected through interviews and reports were evaluated in content resulting in the following categories: Category 1 - Reports on the period of childhood and adolescence, highlighting the influence of behavior models in the development of affefctive social relations; Category 2 - Reports on the relationship with family, market by conflict, with established emotional ties with mother and father, addressing the relation with the family; Category 3 - Sex education: report on education and family and school influences on sexuality, highlighting the influence of cultural aspects, besides the reinforcement contingencies in human development, besides raising the characteristics of the school on the process of human development and consecutively in sexual development; Category 4 - Reports about sexuality in human development, raising the participants' understanding about sexuality, and the reports related to the early episodes of sexuality; Category 5 - Reports of sexuality current and future expectations, which demonstrated the importance of family, friends and loving couples in the development of sexual identy. At the end of the study, concluded... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Este estudo visa investigar a formação dos estudantes do curso de Licenciatura em Enfermagem para a temática Sexualidade Humana, que é uma dimensão essencialmente humana e de interesse social cujas significações e vivências, são determinadas pela subjetividade, pela natureza e pelos diferentes momentos históricos, religiosos, econômicos, políticos, sociais e afetivos, expressando-se de forma ímpar em cada sujeito. A abordagem metodológica de investigação desenvolveu-se por meio de uma pesquisa qualitativa, de cunho humanista, apropriando-se de um estudo descritivo-exploratório, mediatizada pela metodologia da pesquisa-ação. Para a coleta dos dados foi utilizado como instrumento, um questionário semi-estruturado e um diário de campo, servindo como forma de registro da observação participante. A análise e interpretação dos dados foram feitos através da análise temática, preconizada por Paulo Freire, buscando os temas geradores que favoreceram a elaboração de categorias. Para que ações educativas em saúde, com foco na sexualidade humana possam ter bons resultados, é imprescindível que os profissionais da saúde estejam preparados, instrumentalizados e que tenham habilidades comportamentais éticas para lidarem com esse tema, de maneira natural e não somente focado na técnica, na informação ou na tríade saúde-doença-prevenção. Assim, a temática em apreço, instituída em nosso meio social, educacional e da saúde, pode propiciar um ambiente oportuno para o diálogo, de forma aberta e horizontalizada, livre de preconceito, tabu, mito, crendice e sobremaneira de discriminação enfim, contribuindo para uma melhor qualidade de vida das pessoas. / This searching aims the search of formation of the students from the Licentiate Course on Nursing for human sexuality thematic, that is an essentially human dimension and of social interest, which meanings and experiences, are determined by subjectivity, by nature and by different historic, religion, economic, politic, social and affective moments, expressed by a particular way on every one. The methodology approach of the search was developed by qualitative research, of humanist view, getting a descriptive-exploratory study, worked by the research-action methodology. For the data collecting, a semi-structured quiz and a field diary, serving as a participant observation register, were used as instruments. The analysis and interpretation of the data were done through thematic analysis, advocated by Paulo Freire, searching for generator themes that headed the categories developing. In order to provide educational actions in health area, focusing on human sexuality with good results, it\'s extremely important that the health professionals get prepared, instrumentally and have ethic behavior abilities to handle this theme, in a natural way and, besides concerning on the technique, also concern on the information or on the triad health-disease-prevention. Due to the thematic respect, inserted in our social, educational and health environment, it can provide a environment of opportune dialog, in an open and horizontal way, free of prejudice, myth, beliefs, and discrimination, contributing to people\'s better life quality.

This research was to analyze the general conceptions/contradictions of (the) coordinators/facilitators and teachers involved with the implementation of Project Health and Prevention in Schools (HPS), lead for the Ministries of Education and Health, that has as objective central office the promotion of the sexual health and the reproductive health, aiming at to reduce the vulnerability of adolescents and young people on sexually transmitted diseases, HIV infection, aids and unplanned pregnancy, articulated through the development of actions in the context of schools and basic health units. This way, anticipated that the implementation of the HPS in Aracaju/SE presents difficulties in achieving proposed goals total in his underwear. In the operationalization of this research, understood that the review of the relationship between education, health and sexuality allowed interlocution with the historical-critical approach and consequently, with the insertion in 2004, the HPS in Aracaju, capital of the State of Sergipe. The methodological research fell on the Case Study and qualitative approach. The process of data collection and use of sources, questionnaires with open and closed questions and official documents, semi-structured interviews were privileged. However, sought to preserve the anonymity of respondents. Set to 04 (four) Public Educational Units of state and municipal networks, 02 (two) for each public school, and therefore 4 (four) teachers who currently develop Project HPS in Aracaju/SE. Also called (the) 02 (two) coordinators/facilitators (the) HPS, 01 (one) for each public school, to attend interviews. The analysis of data was prioritized the content analysis method for the study of the motivations, attitudes, values, beliefs, trends, and adding, to unravel the ideologies that may exist in legal provisions, principles, guidelines, etc., that simple view not presented with sufficient clarity. After the transcription of the reports of the teachers and of (the) coordinators/facilitators (the), qualitative analyses were undertaken, resulting in grades from every aspect focused on interviews, where the contents were as criteria in the responses of the teachers, their points of convergence, divergence and isolated (unlike other reported). Then the same criteria were used to the responses of (the) coordinators/facilitators (the) and ended up grouping the answers given by teachers and by (the) coordinators/facilitators (the) seeking to establish points of convergence, divergence and isolated between them. Based on the data it is possible to conclude that the goals proposed by the HPS are not being fully achieved, due to the reduction of working hours in continued training for the implementation of the HPS; rejection in approaching the thematic ones of the SPE for the too much teachers of Public Educational Units that had implemented it; lack of involvement of health professionals; neglect of school management to cooperate in the implementation of the HPS; and the lack of actions directed to students with special educational needs. / A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo geral analisar as concepções/contradições dos(as) coordenadores/facilitadores(as) e professores(as) envolvidos(as) com a implementação do Projeto Saúde e Prevenção nas Escolas (SPE), conduzido pelos Ministérios da Educação e da Saúde, que tem como objetivo central a promoção da saúde sexual e da saúde reprodutiva, visando a reduzir a vulnerabilidade de adolescentes e jovens às doenças sexualmente transmissíveis, à infecção pelo HIV, à AIDS e à gravidez não-planejada, por meio do desenvolvimento articulado de ações no âmbito das escolas e das unidades básicas de saúde. Dessa forma, antecipou-se a hipótese de que a implementação do SPE em Aracaju/SE apresenta dificuldades em relação à concretização total dos objetivos propostos em seu bojo. Na operacionalização desta pesquisa, compreendeu-se que a análise da relação entre educação, saúde e sexualidade permitiu a interlocução com a abordagem histórico-crítica e, consequentemente, com a inserção, em 2004, do SPE em Aracaju, capital do Estado de Sergipe. A opção metodológica da pesquisa recaiu sobre o Estudo de Caso e do enfoque qualitativo. Quanto ao processo de coleta de dados, além da utilização de fontes bibliográficas, questionários com perguntas abertas e fechadas e documentos oficiais, foram privilegiadas as entrevistas semi-estruturadas. Todavia, procurou-se preservar o anonimato dos respondentes. Definiu-se 04 (quatro) Unidades Públicas de Ensino das redes estadual e municipal, sendo 02 (duas) para cada rede pública de ensino, e, consequentemente, 04 (quatro) professoras que atualmente desenvolvem o Projeto SPE na cidade de Aracaju/SE. Também se convidou os(as) 02 (dois/duas) coordenadores/facilitadores(as) do SPE, 01 (um/uma) para cada rede pública de ensino, para participarem das entrevistas. Na análise dos dados foi priorizado o método de análise do conteúdo, para o estudo das motivações, atitudes, valores, crenças, tendências e, acrescentando-se, para o desvendar das ideologias que podem existir nos dispositivos legais, princípios, diretrizes, etc., que, à simples vista, não se apresentam com a devida clareza. Após a transcrição dos relatos das professoras e dos(as) coordenadores/facilitadores(as), foram realizadas as análises qualitativas, que resultaram em categorias a partir de cada aspecto focalizado nas entrevistas, e os conteúdos tiveram como critérios, nas respostas das professoras, seus pontos de convergência, divergência e isolados (diferente das demais relatadas). Em seguida, os mesmos critérios foram usados para as respostas dos(as) coordenadores/facilitadores(as) e finalizou-se agrupando as respostas dadas pelas professoras e pelos(as) coordenadores/facilitadores(as), procurando estabelecer os pontos de convergência, divergência e isolados entre eles(as). Com base nos dados é possível concluir que os objetivos propostos pelo SPE não estão sendo alcançados totalmente, devido à redução da carga horária na formação continuada para a implementação do SPE; rejeição em abordar as temáticas do SPE pelos(as) demais professores(as) das Unidades Públicas de Ensino que o implementaram; falta de participação dos profissionais da saúde; descaso da gestão escolar em colaborar na implementação do SPE; e a falta de ações direcionadas para os(as) alunos(as) com necessidades educacionais especiais.

Orientador: Cesar Aparecido Nunes / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T21:57:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tuckmantel_MaisaMaganha_D.pdf: 2171130 bytes, checksum: 772542e8ade1ed222dad97a9953dfee5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A educação brasileira, a partir de 1996, elaborou os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, vinculados à LDB - 9.394/96, visando estabelecer diretrizes para o currículo do ensino fundamental e para as ações políticas no campo da educação. Entre os documentos constam os temas transversais, conteúdos de caráter social a serem incluídos no currículo, não como uma área de conhecimento específica, mas como conteúdos a serem ministrados no interior das diversas áreas estabelecidas. Dentre estes temas destacamos a Educação Sexual, expressa Orientação Sexual nos documentos oficiais. A inserção dessa temática nas diversas áreas de conhecimento tem como fator determinante a qualificação do professor em relação à mesma. Este fenômeno, por ser significativo, requer uma criteriosa reflexão por parte dos pesquisadores da educação, a fim de identificar e analisar as concepções e práticas docentes acerca do processo de ensino - aprendizagem da sexualidade humana na escola básica e, a partir da educação sexual que, efetivamente, temos, refletir sobre as diretrizes indispensáveis para a formação de professores na perspectiva de um projeto educativo emancipatório. Para atingir tal intento, a investigação parte da hipótese de que tanto as concepções quanto as práticas de ensino dos professores são regidas pelos juízos intuitivos do senso comum. Esta se fundamenta não apenas em literatura específica, mas, também, em observações e contatos preliminares que realizamos. Para realizar a investigação, adentramos os caminhos dos estudos históricos e filosóficos da sexualidade. Esta investigação demanda rigor na mediação metodológica, já que o método, se bem aplicado, torna-se tão importante quanto o fim a que se propõe. A escolha da metodologia em questão pressupõe a concepção dialética do ser humano e da história. O método dialético, pela sua maneira de pensar as contradições, ultrapassa o dogmatismo que se esquiva de questionamentos e dúvidas e relativiza "a verdade" das significações da sexualidade humana, uma vez que abarca o inacabado e considera a mutabilidade da realidade, produzida pela ação do ser humano na dinâmica das mudanças produzidas pelas suas ações na sociedade. Por ser o método um processo dinâmico de articulação e associação de idéias e conceitos, inúmeras possibilidades de interpretação do objeto pesquisado podem ser geradas. As referências teóricas e conceituais, para a interpretação da problemática abordada, se fundamentam nos estudos sobre a sexualidade humana de Sigmund Freud, complementados pelas teorias de Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse e Michel Foucault. A consciência da historicidade do conceito de sexualidade humana encaminha nossa prática de pesquisa a se inscrever no quadro da Pedagogia Histórico - Crítica e uma análise da Educação Sexual escolar que se pretenda crítica não pode restringir-se a uma investigação da questão subjetiva, extraída de seu solo histórico, sob pena de perder-se em reducionismos. Para não correr este risco será necessário refazer a construção histórica da sexualidade no Ocidente, desde as raízes mais longínquas até os dias atuais, pois o que torna a questão da sexualidade atual mais complexa e exigente é justamente o seu aspecto social, através da construção coletiva de papéis e formas de expressão existencial e social. / Abstract: The Brazilian education, as of 1996 elaborated the National Curriculum Parameters, entailed to the LDB - 9.394/96, in search of establishing directive to the elementary education curriculum and to the political actions in the field of education. Among these documents are the transversal themes, social character contents, to be included in the curriculum, not as a specific knowledge area, but as contents to be ministered at the interior of the several knowledge areas; among these themes is the Sexual Education, expressed by Sexual Orientation in the official documents. The insertion of it in the many knowledge areas has, as determinant factor the qualification of the teacher in this regard; this phenomenon, for its significance requires a judicious reflection of the education researchers, in order to identify and analyze the academic conceptions and practices regarding the teaching process - learning of the human sexuality in the basic school, and, considering the current effective sexual education, meditate about the essential directive to form a teacher in the perspective of an emancipator educational project. To reach such intent, the investigation considers that both conceptions and teaching practices of the professors are leaded by the common sense intuitive judgment. This hypothesis is well founded not only in specific literature, but also in observations and preliminary contacts we made. In order to accomplish this study we run into the historical and philosophic paths of the sexuality; the philosophic investigation demands rigor in the methodological mediation, the method, if well applied, becomes as important as the proposed objective, the choice of such method presupposes the dialectical conception of the human being and of the history. The dialectical method, by its way of considering the contradictions, surpasses dogmatism which squeezes itself through questionings and doubts and alters the significations of the human sexuality, once it comprises the unfinished and considers the reality's mutability, result of human being actions in the dynamic of the changes in the society; being the method a dynamic process of articulation and association of ideas and concepts, numberless possibilities of interpretation of the researched object may be generated. The theoretical and conceptual references for the interpretation of the problematic under appreciation are founded in studies about the human sexuality by Sigmund Freud, complemented by theories of Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse and Michel Foucault. The conscience of the historicity of the concept of human sexuality leads our practice of research to subscribe to the board of Historic-Critical Pedagogy; an analysis of school's Sexual Education intending to be critic may not be restricted to an investigation of the subjective question, extracted from it's historic ground, under the penalty of losing itself in reductionisms, to prevent this risk it will be necessary to remake the Occidental sexuality historic construction, from the farthest roots up to the current days, for what makes the current sexuality question even more complex and demanding is exactly its social aspect, through the collective construction of roles and existential and social expression forms. / Doutorado / Filosofia e História da Educação / Doutor em Educação

O objetivo deste trabalho foi identificar as Representações Sociais dos profissionais enfermeiros, expressas nas situações em que a sexualidade do doente mental constitui um fato evidente, nas instituições prestadoras de assistência psiquiátrica. O recurso técnico-metodológico foi construído a partir das contribuições dos procedimentos projetivos, denominado Técnica de Investigação em Situações Cotidianas - T.S.C. O instrumento foi composto de dezesseis pranchas contendo reproduções gráficas da atuação cotidiana desse profissional, das quais utilizou-se somente seis, para a análise da sexualidade do doente mental. Dezessete enfermeiros que trabalham em hospital psiquiátrico de Ribeirão Preto fazem parte da amostra. Através de sua manifestação discursiva, verificou-se que o profissional enfermeiro nega a sexualidade do doente mental, circunscrevendo-a ao rol dos desvios, transgressões e doença (entre outros), na medida que para ele constituem de fato atos ilegítimos. Ao negar, adota uma posição de afastamento, em atitude ora repressiva, ora não repressiva e/ou defensiva. Tal posicionamento revela a estratégia adotada sobre esse saber e poder, na qual cumpre as determinações do seu estatuto profissional e vai de encontro às expectativas institucionais e sociais. / The objective of this research was to identify the Social Representations of Nursing professionals expressed in situations in which the sexuality of mental sick person makes up a visible fact, in psychiatric assistance institutions. The technical-methodological resourage was built up from contributions of projective procedures, called Investigation Technique in Daily Situations - I.T.D.S.. The instrument was composed by sixteen boards containing graphic reproductions of aily action of this professional from which it was selected only six boards to analyze the mental sick person?s sexuality. Seventeen nurses who work in psychiatric hospital in Ribeirão Preto composed the sample. Through their discursive manifestation we can know their Social Representations showring that they denies the mental sick person?s sexuality, restraining it as a deviation, misbehavior and a disease (among others), while it constitutes, in fact, a real illicit act. Doing this, they assume a position of distance, either reprehensive or non-reprehensive and/or defensive. This position reveals an adopted strategy about this knowledge and power, in which it fulfills the determinations of this professional code and then, meets the institucional and social expectations.

Josef Vošmik Diploma thesis: Individual sexual behaviour control as a public policy topic (based on analysis of regulations in the Czech Republic) ABSTRACT The goal of the diploma thesis named Individual sexual behaviour control as a public policy topic was, based on the analysis of the law regulations in the Czech Republic, to define and understand how sexual expressions are legally limited in our country. Human sexuality is a very private affair, but there are certain situations when the state authority has to interfere. Human sexuality is a very complex phenomenon. On one side it has very deep biological roots, but on the other side satisfying our needs has been modified by the culture and society as well. Therefore in the theoretical part of the paper we tried to draw main components of sexuality through the view of such branches as ethology, psychology, social and cultural antropology, sociology and gender studies as well as ethics, law and public policy. Questioning human sexuality we cannot omit sexuology as a branch which is associated with it most closely. So we aspired to describe the basic elements of sexual motivation which are sexual identification, orientation and emotions. Of course we paid special attention to sexual behaviour. The sexual disorders were also addressed, because they have a...

Orientador: Ana Cláudia Bortolozzi Maia / Banca: Rinaldo Correr / Banca: Sandro Caramaschi / Resumo: A sexualidade é um fenômeno complexo e até o momento não existe uma teoria que explique, por si só, como ocorre o desenvolvimento da sexualidade, uma vez que o estudo da sexualidade necessita de uma visão multidisciplinar, envolvendo os aspectos biológicos, sociais e psicológicos do desenvolvimento. Partindo de um referencial teórico da análise do comportamento, pode-se considerar que o comportamento sexual, assim como qualquer outro comportamento, é determinado pelos três níveis de seleção, ou seja, é resultante de uma carga genética, somado a um histórico de aprendizagem e ao contexto onde o indivíduo está inserido. Este estudo descritivo teve como objetivo investigar, por meio de relatos de jovens homossexuais e heterossexuais, as opiniões pessoais sobre o desenvolvimento da sexualidade e da orientação afetivo-sexual na infância e adolescência. Participaram oito pessoas com idades entre 22 e 28 anos, sendo quatro homens e quatro mulheres. A coleta de dados ocorreu por meio de entrevistas e os relatos obtidos foram analisados em conteúdo resultando nas seguintes categorias: Categoria 1 - relatos sobre o período da infância e adolescência, evidenciando a influência dos modelos comportamentais no desenvolvimento das relações sociais afetivas; Categoria 2 - relatos sobre a relação com familiares, marcada por conflitos, com vínculos afetivos estabelecidos tanto com a figura da mãe quanto a do pai, além da relação com os demais familiares; Categoria 3 - educação sexual: relatos sobre a educação familiar e escolar e a influência na sexualidade, destacando a influência dos aspectos culturais, além das contingências de reforçamento no desenvolvimento humano, além de levantar a participação da escola quanto influência no processo do desenvolvimento humano e, consecutivamente, no desenvolvimento sexual; Categoria 4 - relatos sobre sexualidade... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Sexuality is a complex phenomenon, and there isn't a theory that explains, in itself, as is the development of sexuality, simnce the study of sexuality requires a development. From a analysis of behavior view, it can be considered that sexual behavior, as well as any other behavior, is determined by the three levels of selection, or is the result of a genetic load, coupled with a history of learning and the context in which the individual belongs. This descriptive study aimed to investigate, through reports of young homesexuals and heterosexuals, personal opinions on the development of sexuality and sexual-affective orientation in childhood and adolescence. Eight people participated, aged between 22 and 28 years, four men and four women. The data was collected through interviews and reports were evaluated in content resulting in the following categories: Category 1 - Reports on the period of childhood and adolescence, highlighting the influence of behavior models in the development of affefctive social relations; Category 2 - Reports on the relationship with family, market by conflict, with established emotional ties with mother and father, addressing the relation with the family; Category 3 - Sex education: report on education and family and school influences on sexuality, highlighting the influence of cultural aspects, besides the reinforcement contingencies in human development, besides raising the characteristics of the school on the process of human development and consecutively in sexual development; Category 4 - Reports about sexuality in human development, raising the participants' understanding about sexuality, and the reports related to the early episodes of sexuality; Category 5 - Reports of sexuality current and future expectations, which demonstrated the importance of family, friends and loving couples in the development of sexual identy. At the end of the study, concluded... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Sexual practices in prisons the world over are almost the same. Men incarcerated for many years in limited space with other men without the opportunity for normal heterosexual sexual outlet end up practicing homosexual sex. South African prisons are not an exception. In this dissertation I tackled a number of issues from a Christian Ethics perspective, with a slant from the Evangelical wing of Christianity as this is my background. The few issues I investigated from a South African prison system are the following. Firstly the issue of homosexuality was looked at from an Evangelical perspective. The conclusion was that the practice of homosexuality is a sin just like any other sexual deviation from the God ordained sex within marriage. Secondly empirical research was done to verify homosexual sex in prisons in South Africa. The results of this research confirmed that homosexual sex acts are a daily occurrence in our prisons. The results also showed that the aspect of indecent assault, forced or coerced homosexual sex acts now classified as “male rape,” was rife in prisons. Other factors related to this matter were that prison gangs and Correctional members’ complicity aggravated this issue of “male rape”. Thirdly we looked at the policy of “no sex in prison” as set out by the Department of Correctional Services. A number of discrepancies were uncovered. Firstly, there is unfair discrimination in the treatment of heterosexuals and homosexuals in prisons. Whereas heterosexuals are legally barred from having sex with their spouses while in prison, homosexuals are having sex in prison with their partners. Although the DOCS insists on the policy of no sex in prison, they appear to be condoning it in that they provide free condoms to inmates. In accordance with the stipulation of the Bill of Rights regarding unfair discrimination, the DOCS should treat inmates equally. To make matters worse, the South African Government has sanctioned same sex unions but failed to put in place effective control measures in correctional service centres to ensure that the policy of no sex in prison is not undermined. The DOCS should look at either allowing heterosexuals to have conjugal visits or ensure that homosexuals are not put together in the same cell, so as to adhere to this policy. Fourthly the issue punishment and rehabilitation was also investigated. This was done from a Christian ethical perspective. The Department of Correctional Services says that their objective is not to punishment but to rehabilitate. The discussion showed that putting convicted criminals in prison was a punishment on its own. It was further discussed that punishment is biblical, and that whilst punishment should be left to God, He in turn has put governments on earth as His servants to mete out punishment to those who deserve it. It was also discussed that rehabilitation does not happen automatically, that it needs a buy in by the individual concerned as seen from the examples of individuals cited in the thesis. Lastly, the causes of such sexual behaviour in prison were investigated. Corrupt officials, overcrowding and inadequate food supply, among others, are matters to be rectified in dealing with this problem. Alternatives to jail sentences for minor offences are also strongly suggested so as to alleviate the problem of overcrowding. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Dogmatics and Christian Ethics / unrestricted

Using an experimental-comparison group design, data were collected at the beginning and end of a semester to assess the effect of a human sexuality course on students' sexual knowledge, sexual attitude, and sexual behaviors. Data analysis by t-tests showed statistical differences between the experimental and comparison group only on sexual knowledge scores ( p < .001), with the experimental group scoring higher. T-tests showed statistical difference between males and females in sexual attitude (p< .001) and sexual behavior (p< .001) with women scoring higher than men in the experimental group, and also when experimental and control groups were combined. Although not statistically significant, women scored higher in sexual knowledge than males.

Nos connaissances scientifiques sur la reproduction humaine et l’éducation à la sexualité se renouvellent très rapidement. Leur transposition didactique également, en fonction de l’évolution de pratiques sociales liées à la santé sexuelle, à des comportements sociaux, mais aussi en interaction avec des représentations sociales et des valeurs. L’objectif de notre recherche est donc de clarifier ces interactions et d'identifier ce qui empêche ou retarde l'introduction, dans l'enseignement d'un pays, des dernières connaissances scientifiques sur la reproduction humaine et l’éducation sexuelle. Une première approche historique et épistémologique est relative à l’influence des facteurs culturels sur l’éducation à la sexualité dans le cadre de la culture arabo-islamique, sans oublier pour autant le cadre culturel occidental. Par ailleurs, une deuxième approche didactique porte sur l’analyse d’une part des programmes et manuels scolaires tunisiens (depuis 2004 jusqu’à nos jours), et d’autre part sur une analyse comparative des conceptions des enseignants en Tunisie et dans six pays francophones (Maroc, Algérie, Liban, Burkina Faso, Sénégal et la France). Afin de permettre un choix raisonné des contenus d’enseignement, nous avons trouvé utile l’approche suivante : l’étude de l’interaction entre les programmes, les manuels et les attentes des futurs enseignants. C’est dans cette perspective que nous avons tenté d’identifier les attentes et les interrogations des futurs enseignants tunisiens sur l’enseignement de l’éducation à la sexualité. Le dernier chapitre de cette thèse analyse les conceptions d'enseignants dans sept pays francophones (Algérie, Burkina Faso, France, Liban, Maroc, Sénégal, Tunisie) sur la reproduction humaine et l’éducation à la sexualité. Notre contribution se veut une porte d'entrée à ce vaste domaine toujours en évolution, qu'est la sexualité dans une perspective éducative et citoyenne ; elle veut poser la question du statut moral et culturel de la sexualité dans notre société. En effet, l'analyse des conceptions des enseignants nous a conduits à caractériser la notion de « rapport à la culture » qui se rapproche du concept de « rapport au savoir ». La mise en évidence de l’incidence de la culture musulmane sur le sujet traité nous a permis de tirer des conclusions quant au lien entre la culture et les conceptions / Our scientific knowledge about Human Reproduction and Sex Education is constantly changing. Its didactic transposition is also changing according to the evolution of social practices linked to reproductive health, social behaviours, and in its interaction with values. The aim of our research is therefore to clarify these interactions and to identify the factors that prevent or promote the introduction of the lastest scientific knowledge on Human Reproduction and Sex Education into a country’s teaching syllabus. Firstly, a historical and epistemological approach was used to study the influence of cultural factors on sex education in the Arabic-Muslim culture, without neglecting the Western culture. Secondly, a didactic approach was used to critically analyse Tunisian school textbooks on Human Reproduction and Sex Education (from 2004 to 2011), and equally to carry out a comparative analysis of teachers' conceptions in Tunisia and in six francophone countries (Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon, Burkina Faso, Senegal and France). In order to choose an appropriate teaching content, we thought it wise to use the approach of studying the interaction between the syllabus, the textbooks and the student teachers’ expectations on the teaching of human reproduction and sexuality. It is in this perspective that we attempted to identify the expectations and worries of student teachers on issues related to the teaching of sex education. The last chapter of this work analyses the conceptions of teachers in seven francophones countries (Algeria, Burkina Faso, France, Lebanon, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia) on Human Reproduction and Sex Education. This work intends to make its contribution to the vast and constantly evolving domain of Human sexuality, especially in the perspective of citizenship education. It intends to discuss the question of culture and moral status of sexuality in our society. In fact, the analysis of teachers' conceptions about sex education led us to characterize the notion of "relation to culture" which approaches the concept of "relation to knowledge". Highlighting the impact of Muslim culture on the topic has permitted us to draw conclusions about the link between culture and conceptions