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No. of bitstreams: 1 pontes_que.pdf: 1409901 bytes, checksum: 2df683ef850d33bcf150ed789a2062b8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-04 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O objeto de estudo desta investigação foi a formação continuada de professoras educadoras sexuais e teve como objetivos: compreender o percurso formativo de professoras brasileiras e portuguesas no envolvimento com as temáticas sexualidade e educação sexual; analisar as concepções e os saberes docentes destas professoras acerca das manifestações sexuais ou da sexualidade que acontecem nos segmentos educacionais em que atuam; compreender como as professoras têm feito suas intervenções pedagógicas frente as manifestações da sexualidade de crianças, adolescentes e adultos. Para tal, a pesquisa ancorou-se nos pressupostos da pesquisa qualitativa e foi realizada com quatorze professoras. Sendo nove em processo de formação continuada e mais cinco formadoras. Foram utilizados três instrumentos para a coleta de dados: Grupo Dialogal e questionário com as professoras em processo de formação continuada, e entrevistas semi-estruturadas com as professoras formadoras, cujos textos serviram de apoio teórico para as reflexões suscitadas. Partiu-se da tese de que os saberes que tem referenciado as práticas pedagógicas de professores e professoras tem sido a sua própria sensibilidade e intuição para situações que envolvem a sexualidade e muito pouco tem vindo das instituições formadoras, embora a formação continuada apresente-se como uma potente alternativa possibilitadora da qualificação da prática docente. Entre as principais referências teóricas encontram-se Nóvoa (1995; 2000; 2002; 2005), Freire (1974, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2006b, 2009), Pimenta (1999; 2002), Tardif (2007), Garcia (2000), Figueiró (1996; 2006; 2007; 2009; 2009b), Streck; Redin e Zitkoski (2008), Arroyo (2002; 2004; 2008), Melo e Pocovi (2002), Nunes (1996, 1997, 2006) e Ribeiro (1990; 2004). A análise dos dados deu-se a partir da análise de conteúdo, apoiada em Laurence Bardin (2000), onde contemplou-se as dimensões que circundaram as falas das participantes na pesquisa. Concluiu-se: que a formação docente não pode ser pensada como uma tarefa isolada, desvinculada da realidade em que atuam estas professoras; que os cursos de formação precisam ser mais do que o lugar de aquisição de técnicas e de conhecimento - a formação de professores(as) é o momento-chave da socialização e da configuração profissional, e ainda, que a aprendizagem profissional da docência está relacionada com as vivências e as experiências que perpassam os movimentos de vida que constituem as professoras como sujeitos, considerando a história de cada uma. / The purpose of this investigation was to study the continuous training of sexual educator teachers aimed to understand the formative path of Brazilian and Portuguese teachers in engaging with the themes sexuality and sex education; to analyse the conceptions and teacher knowledge about the sexual manifestations or sexuality that occur in the educational field in which they work; to understand how teachers have made their pedagogical interventions towards the manifestations of sexuality in children, adolescents and adults. To this end, the field research was based on the assumptions of qualitative research was conducted with fourteen teachers. Nine in the process of continuing education and five trainers, from Brazil and Portugal. Three instruments were used for data collection: Dialogical Group and questionnaire for the teachers in the process of continuing education, and semi-structured interviews with the trainer teachers, whose writings formed the theoretical support for the raising ideas. We started from the proposition that the knowledge that has referenced the pedagogical practices of teachers and professors have been their own intuition and sensitivity to situations involving sexuality, and very little has come from training institutions, although continuing education is a powerful alternative to enable qualification for the teaching practice. Among the main theoretical references supporting this research we have: Nóvoa (1995; 2000; 2002; 2005), Freire (1974, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2006b, 2009), Pimenta (1999; 2002), Tardif (2007), Garcia (2000), Figueiró (1996; 2006; 2007; 2009; 2009b), Streck; Redin e Zitkoski (2008), Arroyo (2002; 2004; 2008), Melo e Pocovi (2002), Nunes (1996, 1997, 2006) e Ribeiro (1990; 2004). Data analysis was based on the content analysis, supported by Laurence Bardin (2000), where the dimensions that appeared in the research participants speech were contemplated. It is concluded that teacher training can not be considered as an isolated task, disconnected from the reality in which these teachers work, the training courses need to be more than the place for the acquisition of techniques and knowledge - the teacher training is the key moment of socialization and professional setting, and further, that the professional learning of teaching is related to the experiences that go through the motions of life that constitute teachers as subjects, considering the history of each one.

All adolescents are vulnerable to get involved in risky sexual behavior but the adolescent in a children’s home is more vulnerable due to excessive pressure from the peer group, dysfunctional family involvement and the high occurrence of sexual abuse. A high number of children in children’s homes were exposed to serious trauma before being admitted to a children’s home and this influences their view of the world and the frame of reference through which problems and challenges are approached. In the children’s home sex education form part of lifeskills programmes that are presented by the social workers. Lifeskills programmes are usually presented to groups and sex education includes information on reproduction and sexually transmitted diseases. The sex education programmes presented by the children’s home and schools do not seem to change the adolescent’s attitude and behavior in terms of sexual aspects. It is necessary to take the adolescent’s needs in terms of sex education into consideration since the adolescent’s search for independence also creates a need to be able to have input in decisions that influences her life. The goal of this research project was to determine the needs of adolescent girls in a children’s home regarding sex education. To achieve this goal a thorough literature study was performed with regard to the developmental needs of adolescents and specifically the developmental needs of adolescents in a children’s home. An investigation was also done on the history of sex education in South Africa and the need for sex education today. The current programmes and sources regarding sex education in South Africa were investigated and information was obtained on the sex education of the child in the children’s home. The researcher attempted to fill the gaps in the literature regarding the needs of adolescents regarding sex education by means of an empirical study. Qualitative information collection techniques were used, namely semi-structured interviews. The empirical study took the form of one-on-one interviews with the assistance of a semi-structured interview schedule with 11 adolescent girls in a children’s home. The respondents were selected by using purposive sampling. The collective case study was utilised as the research strategy since the study focused on understanding a specific social issue (sex education) in a specific population (adolescent girls in the Abraham Kriel Maria Kloppers Children’s Home). Through this the researcher came to the conclusion that adolescent girls in a children’s home have many needs regarding sex education and these needs were identified. Recommendations were made with reference to the conclusions formed that would enable professionals to develop programmes on sex education that are based on the needs of adolescent girls in a children’s home. / Dissertation (MSD (Play Therapy))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Social Work and Criminology / MSD (Play Therapy) / unrestricted

This study explored knowledge, perceptions and attitudes regarding contraception and contraceptive practices among secondary school learners in the Limpopo Province. Self-administered questionnaires were completed by 612 Grade 8 and 332 Grade 12 learners from 24 randomly selected secondary schools. The study found that permissive attitudes prevailed towards sex, characterised by casual sexual activities commencing at 12 years of age. The availability of contraceptive and termination of pregnancy (TOP) services did not enable learners to utilise them, because of social, cultural, financial and service barriers. Most learners were sexually active without being knowledgeable about contraceptives, emergency contraceptives and TOP services. Two workshops conducted with learners produced similar results to those obtained from the completed questionnaires. Semi-structured interviews conducted with nurses, providing contraceptive and TOP services in the Limpopo Province, also substantiated the findings from the questionnaires. Secondary school learners in the Limpopo Province require more knowledge about and ready access to contraceptives to enable them to delay child bearing until they are emotionally, financially and physically ready for these responsibilities. Nurses and teachers in this province can enhance the learners' contraceptive knowledge and utilisation to help learners make better informed decisions about their own and their future children's lives. / Health Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)

The Department of Education is promoting HIV/AIDS education programmes in the public schools of South Africa, particularly through the subject Life Orientation. Therefore, this study investigates the role of Life Orientation in addressing HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal secondary schools. Different role-players were evaluated to ascertain their attitudes and beliefs about Life Orientation and HIV/AIDS. The examination of different role-players was undertaken to establish the significance of their attitudes and beliefs on the success or failure of the Life Orientation based sex and HIV education programmes in the schools. An attempt was also made to find a relevant definition of the subject Life Orientation that contains the meaning and the purpose of the subject. Teachers were found to be uncertain about an appropriate definition that carries the meaning of Life Orientation; hence they tend to define it by its components such as Life skills, physical education, decision-making, HIV education and others. The study also sought to establish the impact of sex education embedded in Life Orientation on the fight against HIV/AIDS. Sex education was examined to determine whether it encourages or reduces youth sexual activities. In order for teachers to be able to use Life Orientation content to drive sex and HIV education programmes, it had to be ascertained if they were informed or not about HIV/AIDS. The questionnaire carried out an extensive assessment of teachers’ knowledge, attitudes and their personal stance on HIV/AIDS. This study established that training of teachers in both Life Orientation and HIV/AIDS provides them with knowledge which enables them to positively handle sex and HIV education programmes in the classroom. It was for this reason that the study made recommendations with regard to training and support programmes to ensure that teachers are adequately equipped for effective implementation of the subject Life Orientation in the National Curriculum Statement. / Educational Studies / D. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)

How do teachers’ attitudes and beliefs impact how HIV/AIDS education is implemented in Kenyan schools for the deaf? How do these attitudes and beliefs reflect how teachers think about Deafness? While there is extensive literature exploring in-school HIV/AIDS-related education in East Africa, there are few studies focusing on segregated schools for the deaf. There are also few studies exploring how educators think about Deafness as culture in this region. Western Kenya offers a useful site for the exploration of these topics with mandated, in-school HIV/AIDS curriculum and a high density of schools for the deaf. Related research also argues that teachers’ attitudes and beliefs and the politics of schooling are useful in exploring socio-cultural constructions of Deafness. While previous studies have argued that “Deaf-friendly” HIV/AIDS education is not occurring in this region, this study found examples in these schools. Data from this study also revealed that this education was shaped by the beliefs and attitudes teachers held about sexuality, and Deafness and sign language. Furthermore, this study found that these attitudes and beliefs revealed underlying beliefs about Deafness that illustrate a range of constructions within this group of teachers. This study spanned 15 weeks of fieldwork gathering data through interviews, questionnaires and observations with 81 participants. Data focused primarily on interviews and questionnaires with 43 teachers in three segregated schools for the deaf in the Nyanza and Western provinces. There were 8 Deaf teachers who participated from these school sites supplemented by an additional 24 Deaf participants working in schools across Kenya to balance data. This study found that while the nationally-mandated HIV/AIDS course curriculum was not implemented in these schools, there was a significant presence of “embedded” and informal HIV/AIDS education. Teachers had a range of feelings about this education, some of which were unique to teaching Deaf children and children using sign language. They also reported how “Deaf stereotypes” shaped how they approached and implemented this education. In some cases these beliefs and attitudes simply heightened preexisting concerns about HIV/AIDS education in similar ways to parallel studies of “regular” schools in this region. However the most striking conclusion from this research was that the presence of “Deaf culture” and the use of sign language among the student population changed the way teachers approached, implemented and reflected upon this education in unique ways not seen in “regular” schools. Interviews also showed that some teachers rationalized their approach to this education because they felt that the Deaf were “different” in certain ways, especially in terms of sexuality. These conclusions are helpful for those in HIV/AIDS education, Comparative and International Education, Disability Studies, Deaf Studies and Medical Anthropology.

Thesis (MEd)--Stellenbosch University, 2013. / The problem of youth has been a key issue in South Africa since 1994, with youth seen as needing extra guidance and leadership if they are to bring about the country that many hope for. The interest in youth is also spurred on by recent studies that claim that once adolescents establish certain behavioural patterns that it becomes difficult to modify these patterns. Little research exists that describes the ordinary sociological experiences of youth, especially on sensitive issues that attract a lot of public attention- such as teenage sex and pregnancies, and what is perceived as the ‘slipping of youth morals’. There is great concern that youth are experimenting with sex at too early an age in their social and political development (Frimpong 2010: 27). In my thesis I focus on the thinking, choices and decisions that learners at one high school in Cape Town seem to make with regard to sex and sexuality, and how their choices seem to be influenced by a variety of discourses attached to the provision of a sex education programme at the school; discourses that organise their everyday thinking and actions in very concrete ways. A key goal of the study was to disarticulate and re-articulate the deficit mentality that shapes discourses of sexuality in South Africa, and to develop ‘sexual’ stories and strategies of story-telling that allow the voices of learners to be heard (Pillow 2004). My focus in this study is mainly to explore how the sex education programme reconstitutes youth’s sexual identity. In my qualitative study I challenge the tendency to view youth participation in teen sex using mainly an abstinence-only discourse, and suggest that sex education programmes ‘contaminate’ and ‘mutilate’ youth understandings of sex and sexuality in quite complex ways.