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‘You need to have some guts to teach’: Teacher preparation and characteristics for the teaching of sexuality and HIV/AIDS education in South African schools

Dennis A. FrancisPhD, is a Professor in School of Education at theUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Renée DePalmaPhD, is an Associate Professor in Facultade de Ciencias da Educación at theUniversity of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
Pages 30-38 | Published online: 12 Sep 2015

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Lindokuhle Ubisi. (2023) A comparative analysis between the religious and comprehensive sexuality education policies in South African schools. Journal of LGBT Youth 20:1, pages 112-128.
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Dennis A. Francis & Kylie Kuhl. (2022) Imagining a curriculum beyond compulsory heterosexuality in South African education. Journal of LGBT Youth 19:4, pages 469-488.
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Anne Lodge, Mel Duffy & Maria Feeney. (2022) ‘I think it depends on who you have, I was lucky I had a teacher who felt comfortable telling all this stuff’. Teacher comfortability: key to high-quality sexuality education?. Irish Educational Studies 0:0, pages 1-18.
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Billie de Haas & Inge Hutter. (2022) Teachers’ personal experiences of sexual initiation motivating their sexuality education messages in secondary schools in Kampala, Uganda. Sex Education 22:2, pages 138-152.
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Lindokuhle Ubisi. (2021) Addressing LGBT+ issues in comprehensive sexuality education for learners with visual impairment: guidance from disability professionals. Sex Education 21:3, pages 347-361.
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Candice Alexis Jimmyns & Anna Meyer-Weitz. (2021) The Influence of School Contextual Factors on Caregivers’ Involvement in Four Schools in Durban, South Africa. Child & Youth Services 42:1, pages 80-106.
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Saad Adnan Khan, Farhana Alam, Els Rommes & Sabina Faiz Rashid. (2020) Experiencing shame: An affective reading of the sexual and reproductive health and rights classroom in Bangladesh. Sex Education 20:6, pages 597-611.
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Katie MacEntee. (2020) Participatory visual methods and school-based responses to HIV in rural South Africa: insights from youth, preservice and inservice teachers. Sex Education 20:3, pages 316-333.
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Candice Alexis Jimmyns & Anna Meyer-Weitz. (2019) “My child would never do that”: Caregiver-child relationships regarding openness and communication about sexuality education in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services 18:4, pages 382-398.
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Dennis Francis. (2019) ‘Keeping it straight’ what do South African queer youth say they need from sexuality education?. Journal of Youth Studies 22:6, pages 772-790.
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Ephias Gudyanga, Naydene de Lange & Mathabo Khau. (2019) Zimbabwean secondary school Guidance and Counseling teachers teaching sexuality education in the HIV and AIDS education curriculum. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS 16:1, pages 35-50.
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Anthony Brown & Lesley Wood. (2018) A critical participatory pedagogical approach to enabling life orientation students to develop social literacy through HIV education. African Journal of AIDS Research 17:2, pages 153-162.
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Paul Chappell, Rebecca Johns, Siphumelele Nene & Jill Hanass-Hancock. (2018) Educators’ perceptions of learners with intellectual disabilities’ sexual knowledge and behaviour in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Sex Education 18:2, pages 125-139.
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Ronel Koch & Welma Wehmeyer. (2021) A systematic review of comprehensive sexuality education for South African adolescents. The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa 17:1.
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Jin Chen. (2022) Research on Teaching Methods of Teachers’ Ideological Education Based on Large Data. Advances in Data Science and Adaptive Analysis 13:03n04.
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Billie de Haas & Inge Hutter. (2020) Teachers’ professional identities in the context of school-based sexuality education in Uganda—a qualitative study. Health Education Research 35:6, pages 553-563.
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Candice Alexis Jimmyns & Anna Meyer-Weitz. (2019) Factors That Have an Impact on Educator Pedagogues in Teaching Sexuality Education to Secondary School Learners in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Sexuality Research and Social Policy 17:3, pages 364-377.
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Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane, Katie MacEntee & Naydene de Lange. 2020. International Handbook of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices. International Handbook of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices 683 712 .
Finn Reygan. 2020. Queer Social Movements and Outreach Work in Schools. Queer Social Movements and Outreach Work in Schools 189 210 .
Dennis A. Francis & Gabriel Hoosain Khan. 2020. Queer Social Movements and Outreach Work in Schools. Queer Social Movements and Outreach Work in Schools 237 259 .
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