Teachers' personal experiences of sexual initiation motivating their sexuality education messages in secondary schools in Kampala, Uganda

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dc.date.accessioned2023-08-29T12:14:01Z
dc.date.available2023-08-29T12:14:01Z
dc.date.issued2022-03
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT Little is known about how teachers’ personal sexual experiences influence their motivations and practices when teaching sexuality education. Cultural schema theory was used to explore teachers’ personal experience of the onset of sexual activity and explain how sexuality education teaching is influenced by such experiences. In-depth interviews were conducted with 40 secondary school teachers in Kampala, Uganda. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using principles of grounded theory. Findings show that while teachers’ personal experience of sexual initiation did not directly align with the content of their messages, due to the centrality and evocative function of these schemas these experiences strengthened teachers’ motivation to teach sexuality education because they enabled them to empathise with students. The study concludes that teachers’ personal experiences of sexual initiation provide intrinsic motivation for teaching sexuality education. The inclusion of dialogues and activities which encourage self-reflexivity in teacher education and training may improve the delivery of sex, sexuality and relationships education.en_US
dc.identifier.citationde Haas, Billie, and Inge Hutter. 'Teachers' Personal Experiences of Sexual Initiation Motivating their Sexuality Education Messages in Secondary Schools in Kampala, Uganda', Sex Education, vol. 22/no. 2, (2022), pp. 138-152.en_US
dc.identifier.issnISSN 1468-1811
dc.identifier.issnEISSN 1472-0825
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/9159
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.subjectUganda; sex education; teachers; cultural schema theory; personal experiencesen_US
dc.titleTeachers' personal experiences of sexual initiation motivating their sexuality education messages in secondary schools in Kampala, Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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