Swedish State School Sex Education

• This entry is about Swedish sex education duringthe twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and howstate guidance, engagement and control createdand implemented school sex education. Thismeans that we focus on the State as an actor. By“the State” we mean not only the government butalso politicians presenting propositions as members’motions, debates in parliamentary committeesand in parliament, experts summoned to takepart in governmental commissions and the publicationscompiled by civil servants in NationalAgencies, such as the Swedish National Agencyfor Education (Sw. Skolverket. Previously:(Kungliga) Skolöverstyrelsen 1919–1991, theSwedish National Board of Education.). Theentry highlights continuities and discontinuitiesin how the engagement with school sex educationhas evolved, from the first parliamentary discussion,in which the subject was framed as sexualhygiene, via initiatives to reform the curriculum, investigate school sex education via governmentalinquiries, and publish teacher guidelines, untiltoday’s understanding of the subject as sexuality,consent, and relationships. We pay attention todifferences in the ways in which state school sexeducation has organized guidelines for teachers,how students have been included, what the preferredpedagogical method was and how, generallyspeaking, the content has changed (or not).

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

sex education

state politics

sexuality education

history

state school politics

Early Childhood Education

förskoledidaktik

barn- och ungdomsvetenskap med inriktning mot utbildningsvetenskap

Child and Youth Studies with Focus on Educational Science

Publication and Content Type

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kap (subject category)