Steven Ridini

Health and Sexuality Education in Schools (eBook, PDF)

The Process of Social Change

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Recently there has been much debate over the adoption, implementation, and maintenance of comprehensive health and sexuality education programs in Massachusetts public schools. Advocates of school-based comprehensive health education programs often use a public health approach to substantiate their position. They cite national and statewide statistics about adolescent sexual activity and unsafe sexual practice as a basis for providing students with the facts and the skills to make decisions to prevent pregnancy and the transmission of sexually-transmitted diseases. Opponents often speak about the parents' role in educating their sons and daughters and object to public school instruction that regards homosexuality and safe sex as acceptable choices. In the literature, many models of community organization focus on the decision-making structure within the community, rather than on the process of social change. Therefore, we often know who makes community decisions, without knowing much about how and why these decisions are made. In this study the process of social change is explored by conducting comparative case studies of two Massachusetts communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313005305
• Artikelnr.: 68529158

Autorenporträt

STEVEN P. RIDINI, Ed.D , a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Graduate School of Education's Administration, Planning, and Social Policy program, is vice-president of programs at The Medical Foundation in Boston, MA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Case Studies of Alpha and Beta Alpha Case Study: Students and
Adults Working Together Beta Case Study: If at First You Don't Succeed,
Try, Try Again Findings and Comparative Analysis A Call for Health and
Sexuality Education Programs Obtaining Community Support for Health and
Sexuality Education Programs Opposition to Health and Sexuality Education
Programs Neutralizing Opposition Implementing School-Based Health and
Sexuality Education Programs Findings and Comparative Analysis Appendices
Selected Bibliography Index