ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to find out the attitude of teachers towards the teaching of sex education in some selected schools in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State. The research study was also aimed at ascertaining whether the attitude of teachers towards the teaching of sex education make the students to shy away from sex education or the teachers are shy to teach sex education to both boys and girls in the same classroom. In carrying out the study a questionnaire was administered to teachers. The data collected from teachers were analyzed and interpreted. Their responses were that sex education should be added to the secondary school curriculum and the attitude of teachers that teaching sex education should be moderate. And there should special teachers teaching sex education.

TABLE OF CONTENT

CHAPTER ONE

Introduction

Background to the study

Statement of problems

Purpose of study

Research question

Significance of study

Scope and limitation

Definition of terms

CHAPTER TWO

Literature Review

CHAPTER THREE    

Population

Sample of study

Instrumentation

Validity and reliability of instrument

Administration of questionnaire

Method of data analysis 

CHAPTER FOUR       

Data presentation and analysis 

CHAPTER FIVE

Summary

Conclusions

Recommendations

REFERENCE

QUESTIONNAIRE     

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

Numerous definitions and interpretations have been advanced by all sectors of human society without an agreeable definition.

In this chapter, the researcher intends to have an over view of the terminology associated with sex before dealing with the scope of this study.

 The term sex goes beyond the realm of sex organs, instructions and act of sex organs as individuals are made to believe to make a breakthrough in the life of human relation among and between sex partners.

            Sex education is the instruction about sex and human sexuality. Sex is an important effect on the human life of an individual and almost everyone in the society including children wants to know about it. Traditionally, children are not supposed to receive information about sex at all. They many a time, learn about sex through their friends, books, television, pornographic films either from the magazines or internets and sex movies.

            Correct and factual information should be given to teenagers about the anatomic development in their bodies. During this period, the girls develop breast, pelvic borne broadens these starts at the age of eleven to twelve years and in the boys between fourteen to fifteen years. The sexual organs mature the widening of the chest and enlargement of the lynx which causes breaking of the voice.

            The teenager’s stage or periods are very crucial in the life of the individual. Many frustrations may occur during this stage such as school dropout, sexual immorality juvenile delinquency to mention but a few are all problems evolving from physical, social, cognitive and mental development. However, sex education has generally being masked in giggles and hush-hush silent matters.

            Children should be given adequate information’s about sex. Gone are the days when sexual matters were hidden from children. Questions posed by the teenagers should be answered by teachers to open a wide range of the communication because silence or lie telling may cause injury as they assume that the answers should be contrary to those books and peers.

            Sex desire can lead to sexual immorality which can result to pregnancy i.e. the process of procreation or reproduction most teenagers are physically able to have children but few are ready and responsibilities of marriage or parenthood most unmarried teenagers who do not have babies can be carried away by their sexual feelings and emotional desires. This can cause a serious sexual malady and the psychological problems for them. It can cause an abortion, sexual transmitted disease and so on. Sexual intercourse between two persons who are not married to each other is considered as a taboo to be generality of the society and morally wrong among religious groups.

            Sex relationship outside marriage can result in quilts feelings and other psychological problems for persons involved. It can also cause birth of unwanted children.

            Therefore sex education should be given at early development stage of the child because the foundation laid in the early life of the teenagers determines the stability and propensity of marriage life of an individual in the society.

            The provision of sex education is important because the norms guiding sexual act has been broken down by the increasing urbanization and the modernization of social norms. Sex education through parents, teachers or counselors and educators will not certainly be universal remedy to the social ills, but it will provide information for improving behavior, establishing personality in our society. This should be made known to teenagers of both sexes.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

            The problem of this study therefore, is does the attitude of teachers towards the teaching of sex education in school have negative e effect on the learners? The researcher intends to find out the attitude of students towar5ds the teaching of sex education as well as the major problem that face the teaching of sex education such as, who should teach sex education to boys and girls? Where should sex education be taught? At what age should sex education be taught? Other problems include how much is to be taught and under what circumstances? And the need for it to be included in the curriculum.

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY  

            The research study is designed to find out the attitude of teachers towards the teaching of sex education in some selected schools.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

            In recent times, the continued problems of sexual immorality among many of our adolescent’s boys and girls and sexual harassment by the adult must have been an educational issue of discussion. On this issue, the society ahs hitter to blamed this phenomena on the school that fails to provide sex education in the school curriculum, the school on the other hand attributes causes of sexual moral laxity to parents whose moral duty to impart sex education to their child because they are the first teachers.

            Therefore, the researcher has come up with the following research questions;

1.      What are the attitudes of teachers towards the teaching of sex education in some selected secondary schools in Oredo local Government Area of Edo State?

2.      Are the teachers shy to teach sex education to their students?

3.      Does sex education affect the performance of the students?

4.      Does students practices sex in school after teaching them sex education?

5.      What are the factors that make teachers shy when teaching sex education to the students?

6.      Should boys and girls be separated when teaching sex education to them?   

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

            It will give correct and factual information and understanding of students towards the teaching of sex education.

            It will enable teenagers to develop self respect and self control with due consideration developmental tasks of becoming responsible man and woman in future.

            It will enlighten our teenagers and prevent them from developing a sense of guilt, horror, disgust or fear of sex especially when they perform sex act of the right time for right purpose and with the right person. 

DEFINITION OF TERMS

Sex Education: Education for effective or hygienic living with understanding of human sexuality as an integral inseparable.

Sex Organs: This is a structure (organs) which is responsible for reproduction such as penis in male and vagina in female.

Sex: This refers to individual, male or female.

Abortion: This is the termination of pregnancy.

Teenagers: A person between the age of 11-18 years.

Pelvic: Hip bone

Menstruation: To discharge blood monthly from the uterus through the vagina.

Pregnancy: The stage of having baby developing inside her, that is female

Larynx: This is the breaking of male voice.

Pornographic: These are books or video that makes people feel sexually excited by showing naked people.