Sexual education in School and Community Context

Code:

PDSH12

Acronym:

ESCEC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2023/2024 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Doctoral Programme in Human Sexuality

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PDSH	10	Plano de Estudos em vigor	1	-	3	14	81

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students
Obs.: Português e Inglês

Objectives

The curricular unit aims to promote knowledge and competences in the field of sex education in school and and community contexts.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students should develop ...

- knowledge about the evolution of educational policies in this field and their consequences for intervention in school and community contexts,

 - critically sustained knowledge of the relationship between education and sexuality as a citizenship issue (vs. a problem),

- recognition of conceptual tensions (individual/collective, biological/psychosocial-cultural, prevention/empowerment, rights/needs, diversities/normativities …) in problematizing sex education,

- competences to design and analyse sex education projects taking participants' views as a central criteria

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

None.

Program

Sexuality, gender equality and youth.

An ecological perspective on sex education. Sexuality, empowerment and participation.

Sex education as a rights' issue: the relevance of sexual and intimate citizenship.

Educational policies in sex education and their consequences.

Analysis, review and design of sex education projects in schools and community contexts.

Mandatory literature

Louro Guacira Lopes 570; O^corpo educado. ISBN: 85-86583-33-2
Menezes Isabel; Intervenção comunitária. ISBN: 978-972-8082-90-1
Araújo Helena Costa; Cidadania na sua polifonia
Rocha, Ana C., Leal, Claudia & Duarte, Cidália ; School-based sexuality education in Portugal: strengths and weaknesses, . Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 16, 2, 172-183, 2016
Fine, Michele ; Sexuality education and desire: Still missing after all these years. , Harvard Educational Review, 76(3), 297-338.
Epstein, Debbie, O’Flynn, Sarah, & Telford, David ; Silenced sexualities in schools and universities. , London/Sterling: Trentham Book., 2003
Carolyn Kagan; Critical community psychology, London: BPS Blackwell, 2011
Santos, Sofia, Fonseca, Laura, & Araújo, Helena C.; Sex education and the views of young people on gender and sexuality in Portuguese schools. , Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, 35, 29-44., 2012
Hugo M Santos, Sofia Marques da Silva, Isabel Menezes; From Liberal Acceptance to Intolerance: Discourses on Sexual Diversity in Schools by Portuguese Young People., Journal of Social Science Education, 17, 1, 55-65., 2018

Teaching methods and learning activities

Contact hours: Exposition Debate, Group Work, Tutorial guidance

Autonomous work: Group Work, Field Work

Evaluation involves an individual essay that is based on the review of sex education projects in schools and community contexts; the essay will be discussed orally.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho de campo	20,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	2,00
Estudo autónomo	30,00
Frequência das aulas	14,00
Trabalho de campo	10,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Follows existing regulations for the study cycle and the FPCEUP.

Calculation formula of final grade

CF=PP*10%+TC*20%+TE*40%+AD*30%

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Follows existing regulations for the study cycle and the FPCEUP.

Classification improvement

Follows existing regulations for the study cycle and the FPCEUP.