One size for all? : understanding the importance of contexts in public policy on sexuality education in Colombia
The current Colombian policy of sexuality education presents general guidelines of what to consider were developing Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) programs within the schools. Eventhood the policy indicates that a key component in this process is to recognize context features of the school...
- Autores:
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Ibarra Avila, Marta Carolina
- Tipo de recurso:
- Doctoral thesis
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2019
- Institución:
- Universidad de los Andes
- Repositorio:
- Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/60951
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/1992/60951
- Palabra clave:
- Educación sexual
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | The current Colombian policy of sexuality education presents general guidelines of what to consider were developing Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) programs within the schools. Eventhood the policy indicates that a key component in this process is to recognize context features of the school community in the framework of a decentralized education system, there is no quantitative evidence of what features are important in relation to CSE in school settings. With the aim of identify the features of social settings related to the CSE competences of in school adolescents in Colombia, this thesis identified 1) The mixed level of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) competencies of in-school teenagers on a national sample, 2) The statistically significant relationship of CSE knowledges, CSE attitudes, not being sexually active, age at first sexual intercourse, use of condom at first sexual relationship, and current use of modern contraceptive methods with cultural contextual features at the municipality level: living conditions, social norm of gender equality, social norm of sexual debut and knowledges on Sexual Transmitted Infections (STI). 3) The variation of the social contextual variables across the country. The method used was a quantitative, transversal, exploratory-descriptive and multistage study, using mainly the 2015 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). With this evidence it can be conclude that general guidelines on the public policy of sexuality education are limited for the country's social context. The findings can be used as resource to guide policy monitoring and technical decision at the local, subnational and national level to support and enrich the quality of Colombian sexuality education policy in a decentralized education system. |
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