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- Creator:
- Valdez, Barbara A.
- Description:
- Many public and private organizations are now beginning the process of developing specialized bilingual-bicultural programs for ethnic populations. The Hispanic population, being the fastest growing “minority” group in the United States, has become the targeted group for many such programs. In the process of designing these much needed programs, an area which has been neglected by both private and public institutions alike, is that of sex education. Up to this point in time, few if any bilingual-bicultural sex education programs have been designed to meet the distinct cultural needs of the Mexican-American community. The present project attempt to address this need. The goal of the present project was to develop a mediated, bilingual, culturally relevant sex education program designed specifically for the Mexican-American community, for adolescents in particular. Video tape was the selected medium of instruction for this project. The procedure utilized for this project consisted of video taping a group discussion performed by first, second and third generation Mexican-American adolescents. Intermingled with the group discussion are interviews with various community members which include parents, educators and community counselors. The issues addressed by the groups include attitudes toward premarital sex, acceptable male and female roles, marriage, commitment, machismo and sex education in general. These issues were discussed from a cultural perspective. This program is intended for use as an aid in the instruction of sex education. The aim of the program is to raise various issues around the subject of sexuality, which the instructor, group leader or presenter will discuss and expand upon with the viewing audiance.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Educational Psychology and Counseling
- Creator:
- Moore, Stacey Lucille
- Description:
- The rate of unmarried teenage pregnancy in the u.s. is increasing (over one million each year) despite efforts by educators and other helping professionals to curtail this trend. This study examines the major health and social issues of teenage pregnancy by identifying and describing the "shared characteristics" of a small target population. Specific methodological steps were carried out to achieve this study's goals. Initially, a review of the literature from three major areas was carried out. In order to elicit appropriate data, interviews with 14 pregnant adolescents were then conducted. To help present the results, five vignettes were created. The major findings generated from this study tend to indicate that the subjects' "shared characteristics" are numerous. A composite portrait reveals a 15 year old, unmarried, hispanic, ninth-grader who is pregnant for the first time. She comes from a single-parent working/lower middle class home with no male father figure present. Although she had attended a health/sex education class prior to her pregnancy, she fails to fully comprehend how pregnancy is successfully prevented. Sexual desire was not a motivator for her when she became sexually active. Instead, she seems to possess inadequate assertive skills/self-esteem to prevent her partner from "pushing" her into "sex" with him. She states that her pregnancy was accidental, and once pregnant, expresses that it, the pregnancy, raised her status to adulthood within her family. The recommendations in this study identified and focus on the need to redesign sex education curriculum to fit the perceived needs of this population. One innovative example that is offered is to incorporate these teens' peers, who are teen mothers, as share teachers.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Educational Psychology and Counseling
- Creator:
- Weir, Timothy Todd
- Description:
- primer was divided into five chapters covering a range of topics including parental role modeling, factors which influence sexuality, communication, and child development. Each chapter was organized by employing a conceptual approach to health education. The structure of each chapter, except the final summary chapter, was based upon a generalization statement, objectives, and learning opportunities to facilitate learning. The readability of the primer was tested at the seventh-eighth grade reading level by using the Flesch formula for determining readability. The primer was written because research indicated that a void existed in the area of sex education information intended solely for the use of preschool parents. Further study is needed and it is possible that the primer could be expanded in its scope and depth. The generalizations, objectives, and learning opportunities could also be used as a framework for developing a seminar as a means of disseminating the information contained in the primer.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Health Sciences