Could Australia Have Its Own Teacher Professional Standards for Teaching Relationships and Sexuality Education?

Autor/inn/en	Collier-Harris, Christine A.; Goldman, Juliette D. G.
Titel	Could Australia Have Its Own Teacher Professional Standards for Teaching Relationships and Sexuality Education?
Quelle	In: Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 17 (2017) 5, S.512-528 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1811
DOI	10.1080/14681811.2017.1313159
Schlagwörter	Sex Education; Standards; Sexuality; Interpersonal Relationship; Benchmarking; Foreign Countries; Preservice Teacher Education; Health Education; Comparative Analysis; Graduate Students; Teacher Competencies; Teacher Educators; Inservice Teacher Education; Child Safety; Teacher Role; Comparative Education; Elementary School Teachers; Secondary School Teachers; Australia; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sex instruction; Sexualaufklärung; Sexualerziehung; Sexualkunde; Standard; Sexualität; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Ausland; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Lehrkunst; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerbildung; Lehrerfortbildung; Lehrerrolle; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Australien; USA
Abstract	In many countries, there are no professional standards determining attributes, praxis, effectiveness and evaluation for teachers of relationships and sexuality education in schools. However, in the USA, a new set of pre-service teacher preparation standards has been developed for sexuality education and health. Australia has a set of generic teacher professional standards, but none specifically designed for teachers of relationships and sexuality education. This study aims to explore the possible development of such specific education professional standards for Australian teachers, by comparing and contrasting the knowledge, skills, and competencies exemplified in the prospective USA preparation standards with those in existing generic Australian teacher standards at graduate level. The analysis points to common areas of suitability, competencies, and effectiveness that could help pre-service/initial teachers, in-service teachers, and teacher educators find appropriate and relevant benchmarks for the teaching of timely and comprehensive relationships and sexuality education. The findings show structural similarities, content consistencies, and helpful commonalities in both standards' sets, comprising seven USA teacher preparation standards, and seven Australian teacher professional standards. Such information may be useful for teachers and educators wishing to generate professional standards for the teaching of relationships and sexuality education in Australia. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01