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- Areskoug Josefsson, Kristina, 1973-, et al.
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Education for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) : a mapping of SRHR-related content in higher education in health care, police, law and social work in Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 19:6, s. 720-729
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) by health care, police, legal and social work professionals has been shown to be insufficient. This lack of competence is likely to affect the quality of services. The aim of this study was to describe SRHR indicators in educational programmes in health care, police, legal and social work higher education in Sweden. A text-based analysis was conducted of written material from all educational programmes in law, midwifery, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, police work, psychology, social work and undergraduate medicine (93 educational programmes at 27 universities and university colleges). Representation of different SRHR indicators varied, but most were poorly covered in the educational programmes. Existing educational programmes lack comprehensiveness in their coverage of SRHR and are unequal both within and between the professions and universities. This situation creates the risk of inequalities in SRHR competence and suggests that needs within this field may be unmet. There is an urgent need therefore to enhance the presence of SRHR in health care, social work and law enforcement education in Sweden.
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- Bahner, Julia
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Cripping sex education: lessons learned from a programme aimed at young people with mobility impairments
- 2018
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Ingår i: Sex Education-Sexuality Society and Learning. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 18:6, s. 640-654
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper analyses sexuality and relationship education (SRE) in a Swedish college programme aimed at young people with mobility impairments. Interviews and focus groups were conducted to explore students' experiences of the structure, content and usefulness of SRE, and college personnel's SRE practices. Results show that, although many of the issues covered are pertinent for all young people, being disabled raises additional concerns: for example how to handle de-sexualising attitudes, possible sexual practices, and how reliance on assistance impacts upon privacy. Crip theory is used as an analytical framework to identify, challenge and politicise sexual norms and practices. Students' experiences of living in a disablist, heteronormative society can be used as resources for developing cripistemologies, which challenge the private/public binary that often de-legitimises learners' experiences and separates them from teachers' proper' knowledge production. Crip SRE would likely hold benefits for non-disabled pupils as well, through its use of more inclusive pedagogy and in work to expand sexual possibilities. Crip SRE has the potential to disrupt taken-for-granted dis/ability and sexuality divides as well as to politicise issues that many young people presently experience as personal shortcomings'.
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- Bengtsson, Jenny, 1976, et al.
(författare)
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Strategies for inclusion and equality - 'norm-critical' sex education in Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sex Education : Sexuality, Society and Learning. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 20:2, s. 154-169
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the tactical (counter) politics of inclusive and 'norm-critical' approaches in Swedish sex education, focusing on the enactment of this critical agenda in sex education practices and how teachers interpret and negotiate the possibilities and pitfalls of this kind of work. The analysis draws on participant observation in sex education practices and in-service teacher training, as well as interviews with educators. Three recurrent strategies lie at the centre of the analysis: the sensitive use of language to achieve inclusion; the organisation and incorporation of 'sensitive' content to resist stigmatisation; and the use of different modalities to produce a specific knowledge order. The analysis shows how these strategies are grounded in norm-critical ideals, which become partly inflicted with tensions and discomforts when acted out in practice. The analysis further shows how an inclusive and norm-critical agenda runs the risk of becoming static, in the sense of providing students with the results of critique rather than engaging them in it.
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- Biström, Elin
(författare)
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Action competence for sustainable sexuality : an analysis of Swedish lower secondary level textbooks in biology and religious education
- 2022
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Routledge. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 22:5, s. 538-551
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sexuality constitutes an important aspect of sustainable development as the concept is used by the United Nations. Education is commonly viewed as crucial to achieving sustainability, and promoting action competence is a key element in such educational efforts. This suggests that education should support individuals in actively seeking information and acting in relation to sustainability challenges. This article aims to understand the role of textbooks in promoting action competence for sustainable sexuality by analysing content about sexuality in Swedish lower secondary school textbooks in biology and religious education. Results show that sustainable development and sexuality are organised as separate topics in all the books. Textbooks in biology contain a fair amount of sexuality education content, but content in religious education textbooks is more limited. In general, sexuality is closely linked to reproduction and is marked by androcentrism, phallocentrism and ideals of monogamy. Content about sexuality is furthermore strongly normative and seldom introduces readers to different theoretical perspectives or viewpoints. Taken together, these factors limit the extent to which existing textbooks can promote action competence for sustainable sexuality.
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- Bolander, Eva, 1978-
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The condom works in all situations? Paradoxical messages in mainstream sex education in Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 15:3, s. 289-302
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The condom plays a vital part in safe sex, the ideal outcome of mainstream Swedish sex education. As researchers have pointed out, however, the condom is not a neutral object; rather, it plays a part in shaping, in different ways, both sexual practices and the idea of what sex is. This paper focuses on sex education television programmes produced in Sweden from 1998 to 2011, and particularly on the condom's role in maintaining a hierarchy of sexuality that favours heterosexuality and vaginal intercourse. The analysis shows that the condom is presented as self-evident, as always available, and as unique in the protection it provides against sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Through over-simplified messages, such as ‘the condom is appropriate on all occasions’, the coital imperative is sustained and practices that do not include a penis are excluded from concepts of ‘sex’. From a safer sex perspective, this approach leaves unanswered questions about protection during other sexual practices, in particular from STIs such as herpes, for which no prevention strategies are presented. From a wider perspective, the sole focus on condoms, with its specific emphasis on the penis and penetration, runs contrary to the inclusive agenda of contemporary Swedish sex education.
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- Daneback, Kristian, 1974, et al.
(författare)
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The Internet as a source of information about sexuality
- 2012
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 12:5, s. 583-598
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To use the Internet for sex educational purposes and for sex information has been recognised by prior research as benefits of the technological development and important areas to investigate, but few empirical studies have so far been conducted. The purpose of this study was to identify those who use the Internet to seek information about sexual issues and to examine the reasons for using the Internet for this purpose. A total of 1913 respondents completed an online Swedish questionnaire about Internet sexuality and the 1614 who reported using the Internet for sexual purposes were selected for analysis in the current study. More than one-half of these respondents claimed to use the Internet to seek information about sexual issues. The results showed that men and women of all ages used the Internet for this purpose, suggesting that the need for sexual education persists even in the adult years. The reasons for seeking information were primarily to get knowledge about the body, about how to have sex, and out of curiosity. Knowing who seeks information about sexuality on the Internet and the reasons why may be helpful in identifying the needs of different groups of individuals as well as tailoring the information provided, both online and offline.
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- Fingalsson, Rebecka
(författare)
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The teaching body in sexuality education – intersections of age, gender, and sexuality
- 2024
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Routledge. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 24:5, s. 737-750
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper illuminates how teachers are influenced by age, gender and sexuality in teaching about sex and relationships. In this analysis grounded in feminist theory, age, gender and sexuality are considered to be enacted as doings. Six interviews with teachers working with sexuality education in K-12 schools in Sweden were chosen from of a larger body of material consisting of 21 interviews with professionals engaged in school-based sexuality education. The six interviewees were selected because they explicitly addressed how teachers’ age, gender and/or sexuality come to matter in the classroom. Findings show how male and female teachers organise their teaching in relation to normative expectations of age, gender and sexuality. In sexuality education, the diverse life-courses of (hetero)sexual women offer a wide range of pedagogic possibilities for female teachers to address issues of sexuality, consent and relationships whereas male teachers are constrained to doing safe(r) forms of masculinity by directing attention away from their bodies and experiences. In understanding these results, I argue that the figure of the tant has been key in forming the pedagogic backdrop to Swedish sexuality education, hence embedding a normative ‘who’ in the ‘how’ to teach sexuality education.
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- Gunnarsson, Karin, 1975-, et al.
(författare)
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Cutting facts and values together-apart : an agential realist exploration of Swedish sexuality education
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; , s. 1-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing from a practice-based research study in Swedish secondary schools, the aim of this paper is to explore how facts and values are made and unmade as separate and entangled phenomena in sexuality education. In this exploration, we work with a posthumanist approach - agential realism - and more specifically the concept of agential cuts. The empirical material draws from moments in the teaching of sexuality education, one concerning nakedness and one concerning gender diversity. The analysis puts forward how the lesson topics in relation to school subjects and exercises become significant actors in how facts and values are enacted in the teaching. This implies that facts and values are enacted together-apart within a relational set of interdependency and hence are always present although temporarily more forcefully and ephemeral. To conclude, we discuss the complexities of how facts and values are part of enacting the everchanging knowledge area of sexuality education and urge for acknowledgment of this matter.
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| 10. |
- Hulth, Magdalena, 1980-, et al.
(författare)
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Child sexuality and interdependent agency in sexuality education texts for Swedish preschool practitioners 1969−2021 : three discourses on children’s sexual play
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper provides a discourse analysis of 12 Swedish sexuality education texts intended for preschool practitioners and published between 1969 and 2021. Using Fairclough’s framework, we identify three discourses about children’s sexual play in relation to children’s sexual agency in the texts: child sexuality as encouraged and entangled with adult sexuality; child sexuality as conditioned by what is perceived as normal or abnormal in children; and child sexuality as repressed. These three discourses mainly appear chronologically, but also overlap and connect with one another. When analysis begins from children’s position and a theoretical understanding of children’s and adults’ agency as interdependent, it becomes possible to see how the child is construed as agentic, and how the adult role changes from encouraging sexual play to regulating and monitoring behaviour so that it does not occur. Over time, discourse on young children’s sexual play has changed our understanding of both adults and children. Adults are increasingly construed as less knowledgeable in relation to young children’s sexuality, and young children have become understood as more dangerous and in need of having their sexuality constrained and civilised.
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- Junkala, Hannele, 1963-, et al.
(författare)
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Diversity in sex and relationship education – limitations and possibilities in Swedish biology textbooks
- 2022
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Routledge. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 22:5, s. 521-537
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Shortcomings in sex and relationship education (SRE) related to norms and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexuality (LGBTQIA) perspectives have been reported internationally and in Sweden. This paper reports on findings from a critical study of SRE content in Swedish biology textbooks for 13- to 16-year-old pupils, with the aim of revealing which sexual orientations and bodies are made visible or invisible in the texts. About 200 quotations were selected and analysed, quantitatively and qualitatively, with a focus on limitations and possibilities. The results show that LGBT content is visible in all SRE chapters. However, sexual orientation is often constructed as fixed. Furthermore, stereotypical gender binaries are reinforced via heteronormative assumptions regarding hormones, genitals and reproduction, focusing on differences instead of similarities, and thus limiting the potential to widen non-binary perceptions of bodies and sexualities. Our quantitative analyses reveal that there are few, if any, queer, intersex, asexual or crip/disability representations. If gaps in young people’s knowledge regarding norms, intersex, asexuality, queer and crip sexualities are to be filled in order to promote equality and diversity, it is important to rethink the SRE content of Swedish biology textbooks.
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- Kristina, Areskoug-Josefsson, et al.
(författare)
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Exploring the role of sexual attitude reassessment and restructuring (SAR) in current sexology education : for whom, how and why?
- 2022
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 22:6, s. 723-740
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As concerns about sexual and reproductive health and rights become integrated into public health policies, the demand for higher education in sexology rises. There is a need therefore to evaluate established pedagogical methods to ensure that they are relevant, efficient and lead to valuable competencies. This study explored the current evidence and pedagogical relevance for Sexual Attitude Reassessment and restructuring (SAR) as part of professional higher education in sexology. A systematic review was conducted with eleven included publications. Data were synthesised across studies and presented narratively. The publications were generally old and derive from a small pool of researchers geographically centred to the USA. Several studies were based on small numbers of participants, display a great variety in types of participants, use different evaluation instruments (mostly unvalidated), and a variety of methods to measure the results of SAR. Furthermore, long-term follow-up has been rare. Extensive, high-quality, and up-to-date research for SAR as an effective pedagogical method for use in sexology higher education for professionals today is lacking. Digital solutions focusing on broadening students sexological self-awareness appear more feasible than SAR, and suitable pedagogical and digital solutions need to be developed and evaluated to ensure high-quality teaching of sexology in higher education.
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- Larsdotter, Suzann, et al.
(författare)
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Educator and staff perspectives on a rights-based sex education for young men in jail and prison in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 23:1, s. 114-127
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Young men in jail and prison are vulnerable regarding sexual health and the fulfilment of their sexual rights. As a response to this, the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU) has been providing sex education to young, incarcerated men, via a project initiated by and in cooperation with the Swedish Prison and Probation Services (SPPS). This article is a qualitative exploration of how RFSU educators experienced their work, and of how staff within SPPS experienced the initiative. Eight RFSU educators, and six persons working within SPPS were interviewed, and a thematic analysis was conducted. Overall, the experiences described by RFSU educators and by SPPS staff were similar, they regarded sex education sensitive to what young men wanted to discuss as valuable and the project feasible. Future improvement areas include strategies on how to handle toxic masculinity among young men in jail and prison. Additionally his, the different aims that the organisations RFSU and SPPS have, and how young men navigate them, must be acknowledged. Young men’s voices are missing in this study, and examining their experiences of the sex education in future work would be valuable.
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- Lesta, Stalo, et al.
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Young Cypriots on sex education : sources and adequacy of information received on sexuality issues
- 2008
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 8:2, s. 237-246
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Introduction: In the absence of standardised sex education and because schools usually limit their teaching to the 'health' aspects of sexuality, young people in Cyprus rely on their peers and the media for information on sexuality. This study examines the sources and adequacy of the information received by young people from various sources on matters related to sexuality and sexual health. Method: Twelve in-depth interviews were conducted in Cyprus in 2005 with purposively chosen boys and girls aged 15-18 years using a semi-structured discussion guide. The interviews focused on participants' knowledge of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, safer sex, contraception and abortion. They also explored attitudes and beliefs concerning relationships, homosexuality and mutual consent. Results: Information about sexual health is primarily received from school in classes that interviewees considered dull or irrelevant. Television, and to a lesser degree magazines, were the main sources of information on sexual relationships, the sexual act, homosexuality and abortion. Sexually transmitted infection knowledge was limited and often erroneous, while attitudes towards contraception use, abortion and homosexuality suggest that negative stereotypes are widespread. Conclusions: Because the information young people receive on sexuality appears to be inadequate, there is an urgent need to implement comprehensive, evidence-based sex education in the public schools. It should also address the nature and content of the sexual and reproductive health messages received from peers and the media.
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- Linda, Palla, et al.
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Child sexual assault or curious play? Adults negotiating appropriate behaviour in terms of age, gender and sexuality when responding to an incident in Swedish early childhood education
- 2024
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Routledge. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 24:5, s. 694-706
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using an intersectional analysis, this article critically analyses implied and expressed norms to identify perceptions of appropriate behaviour in children’s play, and to explore how social communicative arenas such as Internet forums construct knowledge and values. Adults’ responses to an incident that occurred amongst a group of children in Swedish early childhood education as part of free play during the preschool day were analysed. The incident was described in a thread posted on the Familjeliv (Family Life) internet forum. The research questions were: what images of children are prominent in discourse on appropriate behaviour as part of free play; what discursive categorisations of children related to age, gender and sexuality can be identified within this discourse; and how do these categorisations intersect? Netnography provided the method used together with thematic content analysis. Findings reveal two contrasting views: first, the view that four-year-olds cannot commit sexual assault on another person; and second, the view that they can. Young children were constructed either as non-sexual, innocent, curious and playful, or as perpetrators who lack consequentialist thinking. Age was the dominant discursive category utilised in relation to sexuality and appropriate behaviour, followed by gender.
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- Lindroth, Malin
(författare)
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Sex education and young people in group homes : balancing risks, rights and resilience in sexual health promotion
- 2014
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Routledge. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 14:4, s. 400-413
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents findings from focus group interviews conducted in Swedish government group homes for young people with a history of psychosocial problems, substance misuse and criminal behaviour. Participants were asked to reflect on a newly developed sex education curriculum located within a harm-reduction paradigm prior to its implementation. In addition to appreciating the proposed 10 sessions, young people positively evaluated the proposed dialogical and norm critical teaching style as likely to facilitate productive discussion about sexuality. Findings will contribute to future implementation of the sex education curriculum across a range of institutional settings. Results also highlight the democratic aspects of involving vulnerable young people in matters that directly concern them, and underline the importance of properly contextualised forms of sex education.
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- Lundberg, Tove, et al.
(författare)
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How young people talk about their variations in sex characteristics : making the topic of intersex talkable via sex education
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 21:5, s. 552-567
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Classrooms are important spaces for young people with variations in sex characteristics and their classmates. Sex education can promote agency and well-being by helping young people make sense of their embodiment and form rewarding social relationships and by changing societal understandings about variations in sex characteristics. Realising this potential however may hinge on how sex education makes intersex (un)talkable. We draw on interviews with 22 young people on how and why they try to make their variation in sex characteristics talkable with others. By focusing on how they talk to others and why they do not talk to others, this research highlights how participants ‘fear rejection’ but need to talk to others about their variation in the process of ‘dealing with it’. Participants also struggle with ‘secrecy versus privacy’ and how to ‘communicate strategically.’ Findings acknowledge the emotional work required of people with variations in sex characteristics when making intersex talkable. The analysis points to the role of both talking and silence. We conclude by envisaging a norm-critical sex education that engages with the responsibilities of both talking and listening, shifting the burden away from individual young people with variations in sex characteristics and working towards more mutual social relationships.
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- Löfgren-Mårtenson, Charlotta, 1961-, et al.
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‘We need “culture-bridges” : professionals’ experiences of sex education for pupils with intellectual disabilities in a multicultural society
- 2019
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 19:1, s. 54-67
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study aimed to explore how sex education in special schools in Sweden is influenced and challenged by the multicultural aspects of modern society. In particular, it sought to explore professionalls' experiences of sex education and of honour-related experiences among young people with intellectual disabilities. Data from five individual interviews and one focus groups with four professionals were thematically analysed using sexual scripts as a theoretical framework. The results reveal an ambivalent honour-related script geared toward pupils with intellectual disabilities from cultural backgrounds differing from those of the Swedish mainstream. The provision of sex education, including information about honour-related experiences, is especially important because of these young people’s vulnerability; however, addressing the subject effectively is sensitive and complicated. Colleagues with different cultural backgrounds can act as ‘culture bridges’ for professionals who lack strategies, methods and materials. Increasing professionals’ prerequisite qualifications (e.g. further education, supervision) and adopting autonomy-promoted conduct can empower pupils with intellectual disability to exercise autonomy over their sexuality outside their immediate cultural context. © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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- Nelson, Becky, et al.
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Experiences of teaching sexual and reproductive health to students with intellectual disabilities
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 20:4, s. 398-412
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is growing awareness and international commitment to improving sexual and reproductive health for persons with intellectual disabilities. Despite this, people with intellectual disabilities continue to face stigma and have limited access to sexual health education and information. This qualitative phenomenological study uses data from 10 interviews to describe what it means to teach sexual and reproductive health and rights to students with intellectual disabilities at special-needs schools in southern Sweden. The meaning of teachers’ experience is described through their efforts to ‘accept the challenge to coach special-needs students into adulthood’. Findings show that sexual and reproductive health in special-needs schools covers a broad range of topics and that the teacher must adapt to students’ shifting needs. They also reveal that teachers are motivated and have access to the necessary resources to teach sexual and reproductive health but feel they lack the skills to address students’ particular sexual health issues, including questions of culture and religion. Schools are the main source of sexual health information in Sweden and therefore play a crucial role in providing equal education and promoting public health.
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- Odenbring, Ylva, et al.
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Gender, sex and equal health: school nurses’ strategies and experiences of including boys in the HPV vaccination programme in Swedish primary schools
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sex Education : Sexuality, Society and Learning. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 23:5, s. 617-630
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since autumn 2020, boys in the fifth year of school (11-year-old students) in Sweden have been offered human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for free. Drawing from individual interviews with 21 school nurses working in primary schools in one of Sweden’s regions, the aim of this study was to explore nurses’ strategies and experiences of informing students and their guar- dians about the new vaccination programme, HPV and sex. Drawing on feminist theories on respectability and heteronorma- tivity, findings indicate that heteronormative understandings of sexual relations frame school nurses’ narratives when informing students about HPV. The results also indicate that including boys in the vaccination programme has been fairly straightforward and when guardians hesitate or refuse to include their children in the vaccination programme, it is often girls’ guardians who do so. School nurses’ narratives suggest that guardians’ main argument for not vaccinating their daughters is because they believe they are too young. These narratives are framed around an understanding of the ‘respectable girl’. The results of our study highlight the impor- tance of addressing equality, sexuality, sex and HPV as part of sexuality, consent and relations (sexualitet, samtycke och relationer) education in Swedish schools.
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- Planting-Bergloo, Sara, 1978-, et al.
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Challenging ‘the elephant in the room’ : the becomings of pornography education in Swedish secondary school
- 2024
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 24:1, s. 16-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study was conducted among a group of Swedish teachers and a class of 14–15-year-old students and explored pornography education as part of secondary school sexuality education. Data were generated using mixed methods including teacher-researcher meetings, participant observation in class, student interviews, and teacher evaluation meetings, and were documented in the form of audio-recordings and notes. Donna Haraway’s work on string figuring was used to trace the threads constituting pornography education. A four-threaded string figure materialised how Swedish schools’ gender equality stance could provide a sound foundation for engaging with pornographic material. However, a gender-neutral approach to teaching frustrated these aims. The figure also foregrounded how normative societal debate makes it troublesome to acknowledge other than negative perspectives in teaching, problematised the engagement of students and a focus on pornography. Finally, the figure showed a discrepancy between the curriculum’s overall aim and the goals of subject-specific syllabi, making it troublesome to link the topic of pornography to specific school subjects. In summary, pornography education came into being as a complex figure in relation to adolescent sexuality and the school’s mission to provide a form of sexuality education that both problematises gendered sexual scripts and dominant norms with regards to pornography.
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- Planting-Bergloo, Sara, 1978-, et al.
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Oskuld : Swedish upper secondary student conversations on virginity
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 23:4, s. 393-408
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study was to explore Swedish natural science sexuality education as a material-discursive practice. More specifically, we sought to investigate ways in which the phenomenon of oskuld, which in Swedish means sexual innocence or to be without guilt, comes into being among 17–18-year-old students. The study, conducted in two upper secondary school classes for eight and six weeks respectively, involved in total 53 participating students. Field notes and audio-recordings were used in data construction. With a grounding in Baradian theory we explore how space, time and matter – spacetimematter – intra-actively enact notions of virginity within students’ conversations. Findings show that a physiological knowledge base as well as the opportunity for students to encounter their own notions are crucial in overcoming the reproduction of norms related to the phenomenon of virginity.
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- Solberg, Ada Svarstad, et al.
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights content in higher education in Norway : a quantitative document analysis
- 2024
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; , s. 1-17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are often insufficiently engaged with in professional higher education. This study presents results from a mapping of SRHR indicators in formal higher education documents relating to 11 higher educational profession programmes in Norway.The findings show a modest level of inclusion of SRHR indicators but a low level of constructive alignment between different levels of educational documents regarding SRHR.These findings likely negatively impact the ability to reach sustainable development goals (SDGs) relating to sexual health (SDG 3: Good health and well-being) and gender equality (SDG 5: Genderequality), both of which highlight SRHR as an important contributor to population health and development. To meet the population’s needs for SRHR, formal documents in higher education should display greater clarity, and ensure that education, regardless of type, placement and context, provides equal knowledge and competence on SRHR for future professionals.
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- Sorbring, Emma, 1972-, et al.
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Parental attitudes and young people’s online sexual activities
- 2015
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 15:2, s. 129-142
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Parental attitudes towards young people’s sexuality in traditional (i.e. non-online media) settings have been associated with young people’s sexual activities. In this study, we explored the association between key parent and youth characteristics and parental attitudes towards young people’s online sexual activities. We also examined the association between young people’s self-reported online sexual activities and parents’ attitudes. Questionnaires were completed by parents and young people in 496 families. Parents’ attitudes towards young people’s offline and online sexual activities were closely related, although parents are more accepting in an offline setting. Parents’ attitudes towards online sexuality are related to their sexual attitudes and their preferences with regard to the Internet. Parents’ attitudes differ depending on the sex of the parent and the sex and age of the child. The link between parents’ attitudes and young people’s online sexual activities appears to be mediated by parental rules.
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- Wikström, Erika, et al.
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) education with homeless people in Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Sex Education. - : Routledge. - 1468-1811 .- 1472-0825. ; 18:6, s. 611-625
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper describes the implementation of an educational intervention to enhance sexual health among homeless people by including sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as a part of social work provision with this group. Adult service users in different forms of temporary accommodation were provided with the opportunity to participate in three group sessions. Seventeen sessions, six with women and eleven with men, took place at six different housing facilities in Gothenburg. The intervention implementation process (which involved preparation, creation, realisation and evaluation) is described, and factors of importance are identified. Service users appreciated the opportunity to receive information and discuss sexual health, rights and norms. The success of the work may be related to the fact that the project was anchored both in social services and among service users, constantly adjusted, and delivered using a respectful approach. Social work organisations and professionals have an important role to play in acknowledging and promoting service users? sexual health and rights, especially among disadvantaged and socially excluded groups including homeless people.
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- Nilsson, Jerry
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What’s the problem? Local officials’ conceptions of weaknesses in their municipalities’ crisis management capabilities
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. - : Wiley. - 0966-0879 .- 1468-5973. ; 18:2, s. 83-95
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is becoming increasingly common for local-government officials (civil servants and political appointees) to take part in vulnerability analyses to assess their municipality’s capacity to withstand various crises. The question of how such groups conceive of problems concerning their municipality’s crisis management capabilities is largely unexplored. The aim of this study is to analyze the conceptions that groups of civil servants and political appointees engaged in vulnerability analyses have of weaknesses in their organizations’ crisis management capabilities. The attempt is to identify themes in how problems are described, as well as to compare how often the problems may be associated with different elements that constitute an organization and the different crisis management processes an organization needs to be involved in to manage crises. Ten vulnerability analyses, conducted in seven municipalities, and in one case at a county level, are analysed. The results are discussed in terms of what they indicate concerning the understanding these officials had of the municipalities’ crisis management capabilities.
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