Asking to listen: towards a youth perspective on sexual health education and needs

MacDonald, Jo-Ann; Gagnon, Anita J.; Mitchell, Claudia; Meglio, Giuseppina Di; Rennick, Janet E.; Cox, Joseph

doi:10.1080/14681811.2011.595268

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“…YPAR, YPE, and photovoice have proven to be an effective way to develop and adapt youth friendly, culturally relevant, critical and socioecological SRHR interventions, curricula, and surveys [43e50], create relevant STI-prevention messages [50,51], deliver sensitive SRHR messages and information to adolescents and young people [52], build academicecommunity partnerships to prevent HIV among young people and other at risk populations [53], and increase the leadership capacities of young leaders in HIV-related projects, including confidence and personal skills, increased knowledge and attitudes on SRHR topics and knowledge-sharing skills, role modeling skills, and program ownership [54].…”

Section: Youth-led and Youth-focused Sexual And Reproductive Health Amentioning

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Ensuring Youth's Right to Participation and Promotion of Youth Leadership in the Development of Sexual and Reproductive Health Policies and Programs

Villa-Torres¹,

Svanemyr

2015

Journal of Adolescent Health

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The purpose of this article was to reflect on the concepts of adolescence and youth, summarize models and frameworks developed to conceptualize youth participation, and assess research that has attempted to evaluate the implementation and impact of youth participation in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). We searched and critically reviewed relevant published reports and "gray literature" from the period 2000-2013. "Young people" are commonly defined as those between the ages of 10 and 24 years, but what it means to be a young person varies largely across cultures and depends on a range of socioeconomic factors. Several conceptual frameworks have been developed to better understand youth participation, and some frameworks are designed to monitor youth development programs that have youth participation as a key component. Although none of them are SRHR specific, they have the potential to be adapted and applied also for adolescents' SRHR programs. The most monitored and evaluated intervention type is peer education programs, but the effectiveness of the approach is questioned. There are few attempts to systematically evaluate youth participation, and clear indicators and better methodologies still need to be developed. More research and documentation as well as the adoption of innovative practices for involving youth in sexual and reproductive health programs are needed. Participation is a right and should not only be evaluated in terms of effectiveness and impact. Youth participation in program and policy development should still be a priority.

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Section: Youth-led and Youth-focused Sexual And Reproductive Health Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Ensuring Youth's Right to Participation and Promotion of Youth Leadership in the Development of Sexual and Reproductive Health Policies and Programs

Villa-Torres¹,

Svanemyr

2015

Journal of Adolescent Health

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“…There is extensive research in the field of participatory visual methods that shows that young people can play a major role in identifying their needs and suggesting practical solutions (Conrad & Kendal, 2009;Gubrium & Harper, 2013;MacDonald et al, 2011aMacDonald et al, , 2011bReich et al, 2017). In their book, Learning From the Ground Up, Choudry and Kapoor (2010) examine many instances of grassroots movements that provided a platform for political activists and social scientists to challenge and to some extent dismantle an NGO's, state's, and governments' act that on the surface seemed to benefit marginalized groups.…”

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Exploring the Impact of Youth-Produced Images on Family, Community, and Policy

Mitchell

Lamb

Raissadat

2018

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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There is increasing scholarly attention to the creative ways in which young people are engaging in policy dialogue. Yet what other ways may we study the impact of youth-produced images on audiences? Here, we explore the role that visual researchers occupy as audiences to youth-led participatory visual work addressing critical issues. Drawing on qualitative research approaches in autoethnography, we use a methodology of researcher reflexivity to invite visual researchers through semistructured interviews to position themselves with respect to youth-produced images of sexual violence, refugee experience, and colonial trauma. In shifting our attention from studying the privileged position of researchers with respect to facilitating participatory visual research, we learn about the researcher's privileged perspective on how other audiences may view the work, such as policy makers and community and family members. This study highlights some ethical and methodological considerations of facilitating dialogue between youth and various stakeholders on the critical issues impacting the lives of young people.

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“…Students appeared to be confused by or resentful of the sanctioning of such language. As a result, students will be wary of speaking in an environment where normally any use of terminology of a sexual nature would be seen as rule breaking (MacDonald et al, 2011;McKee, Watson, & Dore, 2014). Admonishments serve to further reinforce the sense that students are vulnerable and at risk of disciplinary action for discussing subject matter.…”

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Educator–student communication in sex & relationship education: a comparison of teacher and peer-led interventions

Dobson

Beckmann

Forrest

2017

Pastoral Care in Education

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2017) 'Educatorstudent communication in sex relationship education : a comparison of teacher and peer-led interventions.', Pastoral care in education., 35 (4). pp. 267-283.The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. ABSTRACTThis paper presents findings from a comparative study of peer-and teacher-led Sex and Relationship Education (SRE). One lesson delivered by a peer educator, and one lesson delivered by a teacher was observed with the aim of exploring the communicative process between educators and students within SRE. It is claimed that open communication between students and peer educators promotes the adoption of positive attitudes to sexual health, making it a potential alternative to teacher-led provision. Yet to our knowledge, no studies have investigated the communicative process within peer-led adolescent health interventions to examine factors underpinning its potential efficacy. The development of a coding scheme to measure the extent to which educators and students are communicating openly within SRE is used to describe the communicative process between sex educators and students, characterise differences in communication within peer and teacher-led conditions and discuss how these differences affect student participation in SRE. Results suggest interaction of students in the peer-led condition was different to that of students receiving teacher-led SRE; and provide valuable insight into educator-student communication in the context of classroom-based SRE.

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Asking to listen: towards a youth perspective on sexual health education and needs

Cited by 25 publications

References 18 publications

Ensuring Youth's Right to Participation and Promotion of Youth Leadership in the Development of Sexual and Reproductive Health Policies and Programs

Ensuring Youth's Right to Participation and Promotion of Youth Leadership in the Development of Sexual and Reproductive Health Policies and Programs

Exploring the Impact of Youth-Produced Images on Family, Community, and Policy

Educator–student communication in sex & relationship education: a comparison of teacher and peer-led interventions

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