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SES F 09, Paper Session
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Contribution
This paper will analyse the differences and similarities of sex education politics in Portugal and England. Both countries rate the highest in the European Union, in terms of teenage pregnancies and STD`s (Sexual transmitted diseases).
In Portugal, the Ministry of Education is implementing sex education as compulsory subject in primary and secondary schools on the basis of promoting health and well-being. The construction of pedagogical devices is intended to extend citizenship and welfare to sex education. In spite of state resources developed concerning these issues, there is great concern with the high level of youth lack of information. The need to separate sex education from a biological view of health education as also been claimed.
In England, with the 1996 Education Act, all schools even primary schools are obliged to have a sexual education policy. In consequence, the Learning and Skills Act of 2000 amended the 1996 Education Act, transferring responsibility from Local Education Authorities to the school’s governing body. Despite legislation in both countries, sex education appears confronting the non existence of teachers well prepared on such matters.
Although there has been a transition from a preventive sexuality view to a sexual citizenship perspective, sex education is still seen at very much through a clinical perspective (Redgrave, 2009).
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