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Teachers’ Attitudes Towards and Comfort About Teaching School Based Sexuality Education in Urban and Rural Tanzania

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dc.creator Mkumbo, Kitila A. K.
dc.date 2016-03-10T08:43:41Z
dc.date 2016-03-10T08:43:41Z
dc.date 2012
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-18T11:50:04Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-18T11:50:04Z
dc.identifier Mkumbo, K.A., 2012. Teachers’ attitudes towards and comfort about teaching school-based sexuality education in urban and rural Tanzania. Global journal of health science, 4(4), p.149.
dc.identifier 1916-9736
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/793
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/10488
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dc.description Teachers’ attitudes towards sexuality education are among the important predictors of their willingness to teach sexuality education programmes in schools. While there is a plethora of studies on teachers’ attitudes towards sexuality in developed countries, there is a paucity of such studies in sub-Saharan Africa in general and Tanzania in particular. This study examined teachers’ attitudes towards and comfort in teaching sexuality education in rural and urban Tanzania. The results show that an overwhelming majority of teachers in both rural and urban districts supported the teaching of sexuality education in schools, and the inclusion of a wide range of sexuality education topics in the curriculum. Nevertheless, though teachers expressed commitment to teaching sexuality education in schools, they expressed difficult and discomfort in teaching most of the key sexuality education topics. This implies that declaration of positive attitudes towards teaching sexuality education alone is not enough; there is a need for facilitating teachers with knowledge, skills and confidence to teach various sexuality education topics.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Global Journal of Health Science
dc.subject Tanzania
dc.subject sexuality education
dc.subject attitudes
dc.subject teachers
dc.title Teachers’ Attitudes Towards and Comfort About Teaching School Based Sexuality Education in Urban and Rural Tanzania
dc.type Journal Article


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