Social media technologies are networked technological tools that can provide opportunities for productive socialization and collaboration. While social media are being incorporated increasingly into formal classroom settings, there is very little research available providing specific evidence for the affordances and limitations of social media as educational tools. It is also unclear whether undergraduates are open to, or already using social media for educational purposes. The current study explores Facebook as a collaborative and participatory learning tool to provide information on sex-related topics to undergraduate students. Connected learning was used as the guiding framework for exploring the ways that social media blend peer culture, academics, and learner interests to promote learning through interactions with a learning community. Results of the study indicate that undergraduate students were open and willing to using social media in academic contexts. However, students did not contribute comments directly to the study page resulting in a lack of evidence confirming whether connected learning occurred. Based on student responses, instructors hoping to integrate social media into their courses would do well to focus on maintaining responsiveness to students, promoting the development of a learning community, and varying the style and format of posts. It was determined that social media sites such as Facebook would serve best as supplemental, but intentional educational technologies rather than the basis for creating entire courses. Further research should center on understanding the participation and lurking patterns of students in educational social media environments, as well as the driving factors behind these participation patterns. / Ph. D.

Yes / Teenage pregnancy is often a very emotive subject. The media image of pregnant teenagers and young parents can be very negative, promoting the idea that young people become pregnant for financial reasons or for want of a responsible attitude. In reality, this is seldom true and the picture is far more complex. For many young parents the decision to become pregnant is not taken lightly. Their parenting, though perhaps more challenging than for older parents, is no less caring and effective. Sadly, this is not the experience for all young parents and their children. A number of negative outcomes for teenage parent families have been identified (see Box 1).1 As well as the difficulties faced by teenage parents, many young people become pregnant without intending to be and do not continue their pregnancies. Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that in 2015 almost 50% of under 18 pregnancies ended in termination. Risk factors for teenage pregnancy include poor school experience, low educational attainment, bullying and domestic violence, use of alcohol and spending time in local authority care.

The United States has the highest rates of teenage pregnancies, births, abortions, and sexually transmitted infections in the industrialized world. African American teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections are on the rise in many rural southwest school districts in the State of Georgia where the sex education curriculum is nonexistent or solely focuses on abstinence. Georgia ranked 4th in cases of primary and secondary syphilis, 6th in AIDS, 12th in gonorrhea, 14th in teen pregnancies, and 17th in chlamydia in the United States in 2012. The purpose of this qualitative study was to evaluate the perceptions of residents of a primarily African American rural southwest Georgia community regarding the importance of sex education and their knowledge of the school district's sex education curriculum. It specifically investigated abstinence-only sexual education using Bronfenbrenner's ecological learning theory. Study participants (n = 25) were African American youths in 9th grade, their parents, school officials, religious leaders, policymakers, and health advocates. The research questions were designed to investigate participants' knowledge of sexual health and effective sex education curricula for their school district. Data were collected from the participants via semi-structured interviews. MAXQDA 11.1 software was used for thematic analysis of transcribed interviews. The findings demonstrated community support for a comprehensive sex education curriculum and the need for a new paradigm in social policy that suggests initiatives should be evidence-based to achieve maximum efficacy in policy analysis. The study provides a baseline for school officials to assess community opinions regarding the acceptance of a comprehensive sex education curriculum.

The topic of my thesis is the issue of sex education in primary school. The main objective of this work is to analyze the curricular documents specified for Czech Education and especially to analyze the literature that could be helpful elementary school teachers to teach sex education. The thesis consists of two parts ? theoretical part and research. In the first chapter of the theoretical part I am dealing with the question of why sex education is important. Then I continue with sub-chapters dedicated to general definitions and principles of sex education. The second chapter is devoted to the National Programme of Development of Education or the ?Bílá kniha? and to how sex education is stipulated in this curricular document. In the second practical part of this thesis I am dealing with the analysis of another curricular document - Framework Education Programme (for Elementary Education) and its updates for 2013 from the perspective of sex education. Primary analysis of literature which is available from online catalogs forms another point in the research. The last point is the analysis of six selected titles from the perspective of their didactic facilities and subsequent evaluation.

The United States has the highest teen pregnancy and adolescent STD rates of any industrialized nation. Numerous factors are involved in adolescent sexual decision-making and the social-ecological framework suggests that there are multiple levels of influence on adolescent development, including familial. Utilizing survey data from the Virginia Abstinence Education Initiative (VAEI), this project specifically explores paternal influences on adolescent sexual behavior and beliefs by examining paternal residence in the home, perceived paternal figure sexual beliefs, and father-child relationship factors. Results indicate that paternal figures influence their daughters' and sons' sexual behaviors as well as beliefs. Differences in paternal figure influence across gender were found as well. Those endeavoring to develop more effective teen pregnancy prevention and abstinence education programs may consider the involvement of paternal figures in future efforts.

No cenário da educação relativo à saúde, as questões sexuais são responsáveis por uma série de fatores que podem tanto contribuir com a promoção da saúde sexual e reprodutiva quanto a levar os indivíduos a transtornos severos. Caso não exista uma política de abertura para lidar com esses problemas, principalmente na adolescência, de forma dialogada, sincera e honesta, cabe ao enfermeiro compreender que a sexualidade e seus diversos desdobramentos dependem de uma série de condições econômicas, ambientais, socioculturais propícias, entre outros, como condicionantes e/ou determinantes da condição de saúde. Objetivo: Identificar o significado de sexualidade, violência sexual e educação sexual junto aos professores atuantes no ensino fundamental de uma escola pública do Estado do Paraná, procurando desenvolver conjuntamente com eles, um programa educativo visando instrumentalizá-los para a ação educativa neste sentido. Metodologia: Pesquisa qualitativa, mediatizada pela pesquisa-ação, que permite levantar problemas e, propor posteriormente ações educativas. Para a coleta de dados utilizamos a entrevista, com a aplicação de questionário e a observação participante com o uso do diário de campo. A amostra foi constituída por 23 professores do ensino fundamental de uma cidade do interior paranaense. Adotamos como critérios de inclusão: ser professor efetivo, atuar no ensino fundamental e aceitar participar, voluntariamente, do estudo. Análise dos dados: esses foram levantados, através das respostas emanadas pelos participantes da pesquisa. Foram trabalhados qualitativamente e, portanto, por categorização, permitindo o agrupamento de todos os elementos convergentes e/ou divergentes, apropriados e/ou ajustados às reflexões, de acordo com a discussão, associados aos dados obtidos no estudo. Resultados: Depreendemos que a maioria dos professores pesquisados relacionou o conceito de sexualidade ao ato sexual. Destacaram que os pais ainda possuem dificuldades em discutir o assunto no contexto familiar. Reconheceram a existência de inúmeras dificuldades em discutir a temática na escola. Os professores percebem que na sociedade contemporânea há uma intensa valorização do ato sexual, contribuindo para a vivência de uma sexualidade narcisista, imediatista e individualista. Demonstraram vasta consciência social sobre a influência das estruturas sociais na disseminação da violência sexual. Apontaram que a principal dificuldade na abordagem sobre sexualidade em sala de aula relaciona-se ao seu despreparo e falta de conhecimento sobre o assunto. Reconheceram que não há um programa específico sobre a temática sexual, além da ênfase na importância da interação da família na elaboração e implementação da educação sexual no espaço escolar. Portanto consideramos que a enfermagem enquanto prática social deve ocupar efetivamente o espaço escolar contribuindo para o preparo dos professores no enfrentamento desse grande desafio que é a educação sexual, pois mesmo com os diversos dispositivos legais esta prática não tem sido efetiva e ainda perpetua-se a visão biologicista em detrimento de uma educação libertadora, dialógica, crítica e transformadora. / In the educational scenario, relating to health, the sexual matters are responsible for a succession of factors which can head individuals to severe perturbation. If there is no political discussion to deal with those problems, mainly in the adolescence, in a dialogued way, sincere and honest, it is the nurse who is in charge of understanding that the sexuality and its several unfolding depend on a series of financial, environmental, socio-cultural conditions, among others, as conditioning and/or determinant of the health condition. Aim: Identify the meaning of sexuality, sexual violence and sexual education in a partnership with the teachers from the elementary school of a public school in the state of Paraná, developing with them an educational program aiming for give them tools enough to work in this sense with educational actions. Methods: Qualitative researching, under the actionsearching, which allow us surveying some problems and then suggest some educational actions. We used the interview, with a questionnaire, to survey the data, and also the observation of the participant, using the diary fields. The sample was constituted by 23 teachers of the elementary school from a town in the countryside of Paraná. We adopted as inclusion criteria: being teacher currently, working in the elementary school and accepting being part of the study, voluntarily. Data Analysis: these were surveyed through the answers given by the participants of the searching. They were analyzed qualitively and, therefore, by categorization, allowing the grouping of all converging and/or diverging elements, proper and/or adjusted to the reflections, according to the discussion, associated by the obtained data from the study. Results: We inferred that the majority of the interviewed teachers understand the concept of sexuality as the sex act itself. They highlighted that the parents still have some difficulties discussing this matter in the familiar context. They recognized that there are countless difficulties discussing this issue at school. Teachers noticed that, nowadays, in the society there is a strong valuation of the sex act, contributing to the existing of a narcissist, imediatist and individualist sexuality. They showed a wide social consciousness about the influence of the social structures in the spreading of the sexual violence. They also pointed the main difficult approaching about the sexuality in the classroom, their own lack of preparation and knowledge about this matter. They acknowledged that there is no specified program about sexuality, but the emphasis in the importance of the family interaction in the developing and application of the sexual education inside the school environment. Therefore, we consider that nursing, as a social activity, must, effectively, take part in the school environment contributing for the teachers preparation to face this huge challenge, the sexual education, because even with several legal mechanisms, this practice has not been effective and it still remains the biologistic view to the detriment of a liberating, dialogical, critical and a transforming education.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-03-06T12:23:20Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIA JOSE DO NASCIMENTO.pdf: 31673907 bytes, checksum: ed64facfed9dc1aa9a1575381a07776d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-06T12:23:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIA JOSE DO NASCIMENTO.pdf: 31673907 bytes, checksum: ed64facfed9dc1aa9a1575381a07776d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-16 / The aim of this study was to rewrite the history of Teacher Education in Sexuality Education in municipal schools in Goiânia in the years 1990-2000. We adopted some procedures guidelines of archaeological investigations and Foucault’s genealogical and references relating to memory and narrative advocated by Benjamin. Investment in (re)memories of teachers involved the design and implementation of these proposed training was undertaken in understanding the procedures responsible for the construction of teacher training and how (and why) some mechanisms / devices shake (dis) continuities and disruptions related to the discursive and non-discursive (discourses), which constituted challenges in this dissertation. The narrative analysis enabled rewrite history teacher training and identify as training and teaching practice were strategic targets of control, discipline and regulation of the individual and social body. / O objetivo desse estudo foi reescrever a história da Formação de Professores em Educação Sexual na rede municipal de ensino de Goiânia nos anos de 1990 a 2000. Adotou-se alguns procedimentos das diretrizes das investigações arqueológicas em Foucault e os referenciais relativos à memória e narração preconizados por Benjamin. O investimento nas (re)memórias de professores, envolvidos nessas propostas de formação, empreendeu-se na compreensão dos procedimentos constituídos na formação docente e no modo como (e porquê) alguns mecanismos/dispositivos abalizam (des) continuidades e dissertação. A análise das narrativas possibilitou reescrever a história de formação de professores e regulação do corpo individual e social.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:53:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIA JOSE DO NASCIMENTO.pdf: 31673907 bytes, checksum: ed64facfed9dc1aa9a1575381a07776d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-16 / The aim of this study was to rewrite the history of Teacher Education in Sexuality Education in municipal schools in Goiânia in the years 1990-2000. We adopted some procedures guidelines of archaeological investigations and Foucault s genealogical and references relating to memory and narrative advocated by Benjamin. Investment in (re)memories of teachers involved the design and implementation of these proposed training was undertaken in understanding the procedures responsible for the construction of teacher training and how (and why) some mechanisms / devices shake (dis) continuities and disruptions related to the discursive and non-discursive (discourses), which constituted challenges in this dissertation. The narrative analysis enabled rewrite history teacher training and identify as training and teaching practice were strategic targets of control, discipline and regulation of the individual and social body. / O objetivo desse estudo foi reescrever a história da Formação de Professores em Educação Sexual na rede municipal de ensino de Goiânia nos anos de 1990 a 2000. Adotou-se alguns procedimentos das diretrizes das investigações arqueológicas em Foucault e os referenciais relativos à memória e narração preconizados por Benjamin. O investimento nas (re)memórias de professores, envolvidos nessas propostas de formação, empreendeu-se na compreensão dos procedimentos constituídos na formação docente e no modo como (e porquê) alguns mecanismos/dispositivos abalizam (des) continuidades e rupturas relacionadas às práticas discursivas e pedagógicas , que se constituíram em desafios para essa dissertação. A análise das narrativas possibilitou reescrever a história de formação de professores e identificar como a formação e o exercício docente foram alvos estratégicos de controle, disciplina e regulação do corpo individual e social.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:53:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ARISTOTELES MESQUITA DE LIMA NETTO.pdf: 1194963 bytes, checksum: 6f23b5b2c7ac2a540720b97b23044d71 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-27 / This study had the purpose to investigate the official documents that rules the Sex Education in Brazil and Portugal. The importance of this theme is in the need to deepen the discussions and studies in the scope of sex education, since there are difficulties, limitations and misconceptions faced and-or committed by teachers and education professionals within the school spaces, which show plurality, diversity and cultural and social specificities. To this end, laws were investigated, parameters and other relevant documents to this theme. For the accomplishment of this study, it was discussed about education, school spaces, sexuality, sex education, family planning, politics, state, government, neo-liberalism and capitalism. This is a dialectical research, more specifically a documentary research guided by a bibliographic survey and reflections concerning the level at which Sexual Education is being developed in Brazil and Portugal. As theoretical foundation is: Foucault (1988, 2011), Nunes (1987, 2010), Arendt (2002, 2004, 2007), Campos (2005), Bobbio; Metteucci e Pasquino (1998), Louro (2000), Saviani (1991), Vaz (1996), Moizés (2010), César (2009) e Suplicy (1983). The documentation survey was conducted in 2015 and in the first three months of 2016. The data tabulated, was drawn up in six analysis tables: the first three refers to documents that states the context of sexuality and sexual education in school spaces in Brazil. Federal Constitution (1988); Statute of the Child and Adolescent (Law 8.069 - 1990); Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education (Law 9.394 - 1996); Statute of the Person with Special Needs (Law No. 13,146 - 2015) and National Curricular Parameters - Sexual Orientation. The last three tables relates to specific laws of national character in the perspective of sexuality and sexual education in Portugal: Sex Education and Family Planning (Law No. 3-1984); Guarantee the Right to Reproductive Health (Law No. 120-1999) and Polity of Sexual Education Applied in Schools (Law No. 60-2009). The survey pointed to contemporary issues from historical uprisings precursor to the current sexual education, as biologizing and hygienist human sexuality and the principles of the Declaration of Sexual Rights (WAS). The analysis was directed to advances and limitations about the current reality in sex education in school spaces and influences of the sexual constitution of the human being in its totality. It is suggested the need of more studies, researches and ongoing dialogues and with systematization for research standards to be established and possible appropriation of what was positive and beneficial in a certain country with a view to implement in another. Brazil, for example, can analyze actions of the Sexual Orientation Council and the methods of sexual education coordinator implemented in Portuguese territory. / Este estudo teve como objetivo investigar os documentos oficiais que regem a Educação Sexual no Brasil e em Portugal. A importância dessa temática encontra-se na necessidade de aprofundar as discussões e estudos no âmbito da Educação Sexual, visto que há dificuldades, limitações e equívocos enfrentados e-ou cometidos pelos professores e profissionais da educação dentro dos espaços escolares, os quais apresentam pluralidade, diversidade e especificidades culturais e sociais. Para tal, foram investigadas leis, parâmetros e outros documentos pertinentes à temática. Para efetivação deste estudo, discutiu-se sobre educação, espaços escolares, sexualidade, Educação Sexual, planejamento familiar, política, Estado, governo, neoliberalismo e capitalismo. Esta é uma pesquisa de caráter dialético, mais especificamente uma pesquisa documental norteada por um levantamento bibliográfico e reflexões referentes ao nível em que se encontra a construção da Educação Sexual no Brasil e em Portugal. Teve como embasamento teóricos como: Foucault (1988, 2011), Nunes (1987, 2010), Arendt (2002, 2004, 2007), Campos (2005), Bobbio; Metteucci e Pasquino (1998), Louro (2000), Saviani (1991), Vaz (1996), Moizés (2010), César (2009) e Suplicy (1983). O levantamento documental foi realizado no ano de 2015 e nos três primeiros meses de 2016. Dos dados tabulados, foram elaborados seis (6) quadros de análise: os três primeiros referemse aos documentos que perpassam o âmbito da sexualidade e da Educação Sexual em espaços escolares no território brasileiro - Constituição Federal (1988); Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (Lei 8.069-1990); Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional (Lei 9.394-1996); Estatuto da Pessoa com Necessidades Especiais (Lei nº 13.146-2015) e Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais Orientação Sexual.Já os três últimos quadros referem-se a leis específicas de caráter nacional na perspectiva da sexualidade e da Educação Sexual em Portugal: Educação Sexual e Planejamento Familiar (Lei nº 3-1984); Garantia do Direito à Saúde Reprodutiva (Lei nº 120-1999) e Regime de Aplicação da Educação Sexual em Meio Escolar (Lei nº 60-2009). A pesquisa apontou para questões contemporâneas a partir de levantes históricos precursores da atual Educação Sexual, como a sexualidade humana biologizante e higienista e os princípios da Declaração dos Direitos Sexuais (WAS). A análise direcionou-se para avanços e limitações acerca da realidade da atual Educação Sexual nos espaços escolares e para influências da constituição sexual do ser humano em sua globalidade. Sugere-se a necessidade de mais estudos, pesquisas e diálogos continuados e com sistematizações para que sejam estabelecidos padrões de pesquisas e possíveis apropriações do que foi positivo e benéfico em determinado país com vistas à implementação em outro. O Brasil, por exemplo,pode analisar ações dos Gabinetes de Orientação Sexual e da modalidade de coordenador de Educação Sexual implementados no território português.

Trata-se de um estudo exploratório empírico, de natureza qualitativa, que busca analisar, sob a ótica das relações de gênero, as singularidades das trajetórias afetivas, sexuais e reprodutivas de mulheres jovens de estratos populares do município de São Paulo, a partir de suas experiências de socialização. Por meio de entrevistas em profundidade semi-estruturadas realizadas com seis jovens, entre 16 e 20 anos, quatro das quais com experiência de gravidez na adolescência, buscou-se compreender, em primeiro lugar, o processo de aprendizagem das \"regras\" sociais da sexualidade modeladas e preconizadas pelos diversos agentes socializadores, bem como de que modo as jovens articulam e se apropriam desses saberes, formando seu acervo de conhecimentos sobre sexualidade. Em segundo lugar, buscou-se a identificação e a análise dos elementos que são percebidos pelas jovens como mais relevantes na concretização ou no adiamento do projeto de maternidade. Busca-se ressaltar, ainda, a importância da heterogeneidade dos perfis e a diversidade das situações vividas pelas jovens, considerando que as políticas públicas de saúde e de educação tendem a homogeneizá-las sob o critério etário, desconsiderando os significados e representações de sexualidade e de maternidade. A fundamentação teórica baseia-se, sobretudo, no conceito de socialização desenvolvido por Peter Berger e Thomas Luckmann e no conceito de gênero elaborado por Joan Scott. A pesquisa de campo foi desenvolvida no bairro de Cidade Tiradentes, da zona leste de São Paulo, entre as jovens usuárias da Casa Ser - Centro de Atenção à Saúde Sexual e Reprodutiva Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos, uma unidade de saúde especializada no atendimento às mulheres do bairro, que possui características pioneiras e inovadoras, trabalhando sob a perspectiva das relações de gênero. O período de entrevistas estendeu-se por cerca de um ano, durante o qual foi possível acompanhar alguns acontecimentos nas vidas das jovens, como por exemplo, o nascimento do/a filho/a, suas jornadas em busca de emprego e suas percepções em relação aos eventos passados, bem como suas perspectivas de futuro. Como resultados principais, foi constatado que as jovens constroem seu repertório de conhecimentos sobre sexualidade a partir de discursos e de modelos de diversos agentes socializadores, sendo todos importantes neste processo e que elas participam ativamente na busca de informações que as possibilitem fazer escolhas em relação a sua sexualidade. Foi constatado também que os modelos de gênero presentes, sobretudo na socialização familiar e nas relações afetivas agem fortemente no modo como as jovens pensam a maternidade, sendo mais relevantes do que os discursos preconizados pela família e por outros agentes socializadores. / This is an empirical qualitative research, which purpose is to analyze, under gender relations perspective, the singularities of love, sexual and reproductive trajectories of underprivileged young women living in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, considering their socialization experiences. Six young women between the ages of 16 and 20, four among which had teen pregnancy experience, were interviewed, with the purpose to understand, first, the learning process of the social \"rules\" of sexuality shaped and advocated by the many socialization agents, as well as the way young women articulate and incorporate these teachings and how they build their knowledge about sexuality. Second, the investigation tried to identify and to analyze which elements are perceived by the young women as the most important in their decision-making process to become a teenage mother or to postpone this project. The study aims to emphasize the importance of the heterogeneity of the profiles and the diversity of the situations experienced by young women, considering that health and education public policies tend to homogenize them under the age criterion, ignoring the meanings and their representations of sexuality and motherhood. The concept of socialization developed by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann and the concept of gender elaborated by Joan Scott are applied as theoretical basis for the analysis. The field research was carried out in Cidade Tiradentes, in east São Paulo, among the young clients of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Center Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcelos, a specialized public health unit which provide health services and counseling to women living in the neighborhood, with pioneering and innovative characteristics, working under the perspective of gender relations. The interviews were carried our for about one year, during which it was possible to follow some important events in the lives of the young, for example, the birth of their children, job hunting experiences, their perceptions about past events and future prospects. As main results, it was evidenced that the young women construct their repertoire of sexuality knowledge on the basis of discourses and models shaped by different socialization agents; all agents are important to them in the process; the young women participate actively in the search for information that help them make choices about their sexual lives. It was also evidenced that gender models, especially those in their family socialization and love relationships influence strongly the way the young women think about motherhood, and are more relevant than the discourses from families and other socialization agents.