Vortrag 'Teaching the teachers. How to bring the fundamental decree sex education into school classes'

Beschreibung

The concept of “Learning about the cognitive, emotional, social, interactive, and physical aspects of sexuality” defines the standards for sexual education in Europe (UNFPA, WHO, & ZBgA, 2020, p. 2). This sentence introduces the “Comprehensive sexual education factsheet series” issued by the European regional office of the World Health Organisation, relating to the worldwide standards of sexuality education published in 2010. Most of the European governments implemented these standards in their national laws; for the Austrian case, it is the “Grundsatzerlass Sexualpädagogik”1, which in its current version2 sets that it is the responsibility of schools to develop holistic personalities, of which sexual development is an important aspect. As a consequence, up-to-date sex education is a part of school education (BMBF, 2015, p. 3).
So far so good. When it comes to its practical implementation, the decree states that “Sex education as an educational and teaching task is anchored in all curricula as a teaching principle and/or as an educational part of ‘health and exercise’ (...)” (BMBF, 2015, p. 7), yet this is where the implementation requirements end. It does not give any further guidelines how, in which extent, and in what age group sexual education needs to be thought – all it tells is that it is a cross-cutting topic, but not a topic by its own embedded in the regular curriculum. This leads to the paradox situation that teachers in Austrian schools across all levels (compulsory schooling, higher general education, secondary technical schools, commercial academy) try to avoid to proactive relate to the topic, the fast majority only feels partly prepared or not prepared at all (Austrian_Institute_for_Family_Studies, 2022, p. 125).
In the summer term 2022 I thought a guided reading seminar “The sexual revolution 1968 and its aftermath” in the bachelor teacher education programme “history and political education”; in the current summer term 2023 a similar seminar for the master programme “history and political education” and “gender studies” (University_of_Vienna, 2023) at the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies. One of the student’s tasks was to create concepts how to implement the fundamental decree sexual education in their future classes. At the RN23 I would like to present selected ideas (the best 5 out of 30 assignments) from one-hour units via weekend-workshops all the way to integrated concepts over 8 school years.

Zeitraum	28 Sept. 2023 → 29 Sept. 2023
Ereignistitel	ESA RN23 Sexuality Research Network Conference 2023 Zagreb: Making a difference: The hope and promise of Sexuality studies
Veranstaltungstyp	Konferenz
Ort	Zagreb, KroatienAuf Karte anzeigen
Bekanntheitsgrad	International