Exploring Sexuality Education and the Burdened Teacher: A Participatory Approach in a Rural Primary School in Kenya     

SUSAN WANJIRU KIRAGU 《Pastoral Care in Education》2007,25(3):5-15

Twenty-five years since the onset of HIV/AIDS, young people aged 15–24 now make up half of new HIV infections. This paper advocates for comprehensive sexuality education as an effective panacea to reverse this, with teachers stepping up and embracing their role as sexuality educators. The exploration of this challenge is informed by a small-scale participatory study of teacher responses in a rural primary school in Nakuru district, Kenya. Dialogue was held with 18 teachers (11 females, seven males) on the challenges they faced in teaching sexuality education and teachers emerged as disorientated and embarrassed in conversations about sexuality issues with the pupils. Because sexuality education lacks a curriculum, teachers have found it challenging to integrate it into regular subjects; they also observed that parents seem resistant to addressing this at home, and thus this task falls to them.
In the study, a process of self-awareness of the need for them to step up and teach sexuality education emerges among the participants. A key finding is that participatory and dialectical interventions that can prepare teachers and develop their confidence in teaching sexuality education are required.  相似文献   

Gender,culture, and geography: A comparison of seating arrangements in the United States and Taiwan     

Rebecca J. Cline  Carol A. Puhl 《Int J Intercult Relat》1984,8(2):199-219

The present study describes and compares seating preferences among Taiwanese and American respondents. Using a questionnaire method, seating preferences were obtained for 75 male and 100 female college students from the United Slates, and for 29 male and 54 female teachers of English in Taiwan. Responses were obtained for all possible combinations of sex of interaction partner, location (task or social), and six interpersonal activities. Results were summarized in the form of proportions of respondents choosing each of four possible angles of interaction: corner, opposite, diagonal, and side seating. Comparisons were made using Chisquare tests for independence.In general, results showed that Taiwanese respondents, when compared to Americans, are more likely to prefer side seating and less likely to prefer corner seating. Culture, sex of respondents, and sex of interaction partner interact in influencing preferences. In the United States, seating preferences function to unite males with females and to separate same-sex partners, while the opposite is true in Taiwan. Results are interpreted in terms of implications for intercultural communication.  相似文献   

保定师专毕业生能力情况的调查报告     

刘世斌  苏宗印  刘文艳 《保定师专学报》2002,15(3):84-86

在问卷调查的基础上,对保定师专的毕业生能力情况作出了评价,分析了存在的问题,提出了转变观念,增强创新意识,深化教学改革,加强社会实践,增加投入,创造条件,培养师专生综合能力的建议。  相似文献   

The importance of ethnicity in ethnic studies programs     

Philip E. Lampe 《Int J Intercult Relat》1979,3(2):175-185

A study was undertaken to determine the importance of ethnicity in an ethnic studies program. Three different dimensions were examined (1) the importance of the ethnicity of the teacher in the opinions of administrators and students; (2) ethnic differences among students in attitudes and expectations regarding such a program; (3) the relationship between the structure or content of the ethnic studies program and the long-range ethnic goals of society. Results of a nationwide sample of academic deans and a sample of students from two colleges in San Antonio, Texas, indicate that the ethnicity of teachers is an important concern for both administrators and students. It was also found that attitudes and expectations, as well as what the primary function of the program and the long-range ethnic goals should be, differed with the ethnicity of students.  相似文献   

Directed forgetting among third and seventh graders     

Carla J Posnansky 《Contemporary educational psychology》1976,1(3):247-256

The present studies examined the effectiveness of explicit and implicit Forget cues for enhancing memory of to-be-remembered items within a directed forgetting paradigm. Such a paradigm may be viewed as a laboratory analogue to a classroom testing situation where students read through an examination before beginning in order to cue themselves as to which information is important to remember. Subjects were third- and seventh-grade children. Evidence was provided that directed forgetting processes were operative at the time of recall so that memory enhancement did not merely reflect differential rehearsal of the to-be-remembered items during study. When easy partitioning of items into Remember and Forget sets was possible, subjects as young as third graders could benefit from postpresentation Forget cues. The data suggest that postpresentation Forget cues permit a selective search during recall and a consequent reduction in interference from to-be-forgotten items. Applications of these findings to a classroom testing situation were discussed.  相似文献   

Ethnic origin and social control: Jewish and Arab delinquents in IsraelLos delincuentes Arabes y Judios en IsraelL'origine ethinque et le contrôle social: délinquants Juifs et Arabes en Israël     

Haj Yahia Muhamed  Giora Rahav  Meir Teichman 《Int J Intercult Relat》1978,2(3):328-337

A review of the literature reveals that minorities often receive relatively severe dispositions by the various law enforcement agencies (police, probation, and the courts). This discrimination is usually explained by the prejudices of officers of these agencies. A study of the official statistics of juvenile delinquency in Israel reveals a similar pattern: Arab juveniles are overrepresented among recipients of severe recommendations and decisions. This overrepresentation is mostly due to the harsher recommendations Arab juveniles receive from their probation officers. However, since these officers are Arabs, prejudice cannot be the explanation. An attitudes and opinions survey reveals that Arab probation officers are more concerned with the community's welfare than the Jewish ones. This fact seems to be the cause of the difference in the pattern of recommendations.  相似文献   

International perceptions across the sea: Patterns in Japanese young adults     

Kaoru Yamamoto  O.L. Davis  Gail McEachron-Hirsch 《Int J Intercult Relat》1983,7(1):69-78

The international perceptions of Japanese young adults were explored in 172 professional education students in two Tokyo colleges. They classified 30 nations according to their “current” and “future” affinity to Japan. Little difference was detected in the Q-sorts between institutions arid sexes, while the “current” and “future” sorts correlated .96 with each other. In cluster analyses, many two-nation units (e.g., Czechoslovakia-Yugoslavia) were found to be the building blocks for the overall pattern. The total configuration consisted of three broad groups: mostly Western European nations, problematical nations (China, Russia, Israel, Egypt, etc.), and remote and neutral nations. Structurally, the results were similar to those for American young adults, but the contents were different. The notion of cultural metastereotypes thus received tentative support.  相似文献   

基于B/S模式的大学英语四级考试系统研究     

宋宏伟  杨凤勇  冯秀彦 《石家庄职业技术学院学报》2006,18(2):33-37

传统的大学英语四级考试存在投入较多、保密困难、作弊方便等弊端.考试改革势在必行.基于B/S模式的大学英语四级考试系统,按照英语四级考试的基本流程和遵循的原则,将考试、阅卷、登统、证书打印等全过程分为若干功能模块,为了使考试系统科学、严谨,设计了总体结构,提出了建立题库方案,叙述了实现的技术、方法和算法,特别提出了客观题阅卷方案.  相似文献   

试论体育教师的角色融合     

林祖明  方新普 《四川体育科学》2003,(2):81-82

中国人长期以来以知识价值取向的实用功利性所形成的社会人格心理机制而重智轻体教育，讲究书生气的教育思想深深地影响着学校体育和体育教师职业的认识并阻碍了体育教师与角色融合的程度。  相似文献   

X25043/45看门狗定时器在自动控制系统中的应用     

成晓明  付青罗安 《上海海事大学学报》2001,22(3):243-246

作为保证微处理器正常运行的一个重要手段,X25043看门狗定时器在我们开发的自动控制系统中获得了成功的应用.本文就X25043/45看门狗定时器的工作原理、与CPU的硬件连线以及软件编程作了深入详细的探讨.  相似文献