Three quality professional documents to guide teachers for puberty, relationships and sexuality education

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Goldman, Juliette
Collier-Harris, Christine
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2017
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Quality school-based sexuality education is important for all children and adolescents. The global trend towards students’ earlier, longer, and technologically connected pubertal experience makes the timely provision of such education particularly significant. Quality international sexuality education documents are available for teachers developing curriculum-based frameworks and pastoral care programmes, and these variously include policy and structural guidance, equity standards, comprehensive content and pedagogical strategies. This paper aims to compare three such documents for their relevance in meeting the educational needs of students, and their usefulness for teachers and educators. The results show that these three documents, produced by global organisations for multi-national application, provide highly professional and sustainable responses to the dire need for improved sexuality education for all children and adolescents, in formats accessible to any curriculum planner or teacher. Inclusive and timely provision of any of these document frameworks would help enhance sexuality teaching and learning in contemporary primary and secondary schools, and they are highly recommended for use by teachers around the world.

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Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development

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35

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2

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Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified

Education Systems

Curriculum and Pedagogy

Specialist Studies in Education

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