Is Puberty Education Evident in Australia's First National Curriculum?

Autor/inn/en	Collier-Harris, Christine A.; Goldman, Juliette D. G.
Titel	Is Puberty Education Evident in Australia's First National Curriculum?
Quelle	In: Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 17 (2017) 1, S.57-72 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1811
DOI	10.1080/14681811.2016.1225259
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Puberty; National Curriculum; Elementary Secondary Education; Qualitative Research; Statistical Analysis; Children; Preadolescents; Comprehensive School Health Education; Sex Education; Content Analysis; Interdisciplinary Approach; Language Arts; Mathematics; Humanities; Social Sciences; Technology Education; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Pubertät; Qualitative Forschung; Statistische Analyse; Child; Kind; Kinder; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Sex instruction; Sexualaufklärung; Sexualerziehung; Sexualkunde; Inhaltsanalyse; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Sprachkultur; Mathematik; Geisteswissenschaften; Humanwissenschaften; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Technisch-naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Australien
Abstract	The processes of puberty, including reproductive fertility and social-role transitions, now begin earlier, last longer, and are experienced in very different contexts. Because of this, all children and adolescents need good-quality puberty education in school curricula, and this need is supported by positive cost-benefit analysis and international professional consensus. The introduction of a new nationwide curriculum is an ideal opportunity to seek evidence for the presence of puberty education, in this case, in the Australian Curriculum. This study, a concise account of the first-known search for such evidence, aims to examine the compulsory curriculum Content Descriptions in the subject Learning Areas (LAs) developed for Australian students in Years 1-10. Quantitative and qualitative content analyses were conducted of audits taken at critical learning/teaching stages for students aged 5, 10 and 15. Findings highlight negligible levels of puberty education presence, even in the LA of Health and Physical Education (HPE), but immense potential for the inclusion of puberty education in all audited LAs. The introduction of consistent, continuous and competent programmes in all school years would likely enhance students' well-being, health and safety, educational outcomes and life chances. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01