Peer education: From enduring problematics to pedagogical potential

Southgate, Erica; Aggleton, Peter

doi:10.1177/0017896916641459

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“…Health and social care professionals working with young parents are encouraged to sensitively challenge stigmatising attitudes, highlighting the consequences of stigmatisation, and presenting a more balanced, evidence based, fair perspective of teenage parenthood for all to contemplate. This data suggests that approaches such as peer education and peer support used in reproductive health (Kim and Free 2008;Southgate and Aggleton 2016) should not be considered neutral, taken for granted processes, but may be complex and more nuanced. Health and social care professionals supporting young parents should be aware of the potential for stigma, discrimination, isolation and exclusion from peers.…”

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‘Other Girls’: A Qualitative Exploration of Teenage Mothers’ Views on Teen Pregnancy in Contemporaries

Jones

Whitfield

Seymour

et al. 2019

Sexuality & Culture

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Perspectives that consider teenage mothers as a 'social problem' are well described in the literature. However, the attitudes towards teenage mothers held by other teenage mothers are not well understood. Given the growing use of peer support in the reproductive health of teenagers, the attitudes of teenage mothers towards their contemporaries is worthy of exploration. We aimed to examine the discourse around teenage pregnancy in teenage mothers who have recently experienced teenage pregnancy and motherhood for themselves. Fourty mothers aged 16-19, who had recently given birth and used a homebased sexual health service took part in semi-structured interviews to explore their views on pregnancy in other teenagers. The analytical framework of 'othering' and resistance are used to examine their discourse around teenage pregnancy in teenage mothers. Findings indicate that teenage pregnancy and parenting in teenage mother contemporaries is not always viewed positively. Some teenage mothers in this study used strategies to distance themselves from perceived negativity. Two overarching themes emerged from the data: Constructions of moral judgement and Maintenance of positive self-representations. The negative portrayal of teenage pregnancy within wider society impacts the ongoing stigma attached to teenage pregnancy within the teenage population. Approaches such as peer education and peer support used in reproductive health should not be considered neutral, taken for granted processes, but may be complex and more nuanced. Health and social care professionals supporting young parents should be aware of the potential for stigma, discrimination, isolation and exclusion within teenage peer groups. Policy makers need to ensure young mothers have access to a broad range of support opportunities and this should include formal, professional support.

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‘Other Girls’: A Qualitative Exploration of Teenage Mothers’ Views on Teen Pregnancy in Contemporaries

Jones

Whitfield

Seymour

et al. 2019

Sexuality & Culture

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“…During participant observations we noticed many instances of (informal) sexual knowledge building among peers through casual or more profound conversations, remarks, gazes and jokes; showing that 'peer education' is much more complex and interwoven with daily practices than is generally assumed in dominant, 'technicist' approaches of peer education (see also Southgate and Aggleton 2017).…”

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Empowerment through sex education? Rethinking paradoxical policies

2017

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Youth empowerment is the main goal of sex education according to Dutch Government and NGO policies. Academics from different disciplines have argued, however, that the ideal of empowerment through education is problematic, because of the unequal power relations implicated in educational practices. Building on one-anda-half years of online and offline ethnographic fieldwork among Dutch youth, this article argues that Dutch sex educational policies inhibit rather than encourage young people's empowerment by allowing only a limited number of sexual knowledge building practices to thrive while making others nearly impossible. In order to facilitate young people's empowerment, policies should aim to create space for young people to develop their own themes and priorities, to offer a multitude of perspectives, to set the pace and to use different strategies for sexual knowledge building, including learning by doing and online learning. This requires a cultural shift that involves both an openness to young people's experimentation, and a change in existing power hierarchies based on age.

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“…A kortársoktatási programok ún. "fekete doboza" az alkalmazott pedagógiai módszerek pontos ismertetése, amely nélkül a hatékonyság nem értelmezhető (Southgate-Aggleton, 2016). A TANTUdSZ Program kortársoktatói a felkészülés során éppen ezért előzetesen megbeszélt formai elvárások alapján tevékenységtervezetben rögzítik az általuk kidolgozott négy tanórás egészségfejlesztési program menetét időtervvel, a tevékenységek pontos leírásával, az alkalmazott módszerek, tanulói munkaformák és a szükséges eszközök ismertetésével.…”

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Hatékonyság és reflexió – A kortársoktatás pedagógiai módszere az egészségfejlesztés területén Effectiveness and Reflection – Pedagogical Methods of Peer Education in Health Promotion

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Darvay²,

Lukács³

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Az eddig feldolgozott és publikált eredményeink szerint az egészségfejlesztés területén megvalósított kortársoktatói programjaink különböző mértékben ugyan, de minden korcsoportban hatékonyak. Egyértelmű pozitív irányú változás állt be a tudás, de több esetben az attitűd, a különféle készségek és egészség-magatartás tekintetében is, miközben-talán ez a hatékonysági eredmények után nem okoz különösebb meglepetést-a TANTUdSZ Programokon részt vevő gyermekek visszajelzései is egyértelműen jók. Ugyan a program megvalósítása egészségtudományi és pedagógiai ismeretek és képességek tekintetében is komplex gondolkodást kíván a hallgatóktól, mégis, a beérkezett reflexiók többsége ugyancsak pozitív. A társas kapcsolatokra és érzelmi bevonódásra épülő tanulási programokban részt vevők esetében, így a kortársoktatás során is, javulnak a szociális és érzelmi képességek, pozitívan változik attitűdjük önmagukhoz, társaikhoz képest. Ezek a pozitív hatások tükröződnek a hallgatói véleményekben is.

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Peer education: From enduring problematics to pedagogical potential

Cited by 26 publications

References 68 publications

‘Other Girls’: A Qualitative Exploration of Teenage Mothers’ Views on Teen Pregnancy in Contemporaries

‘Other Girls’: A Qualitative Exploration of Teenage Mothers’ Views on Teen Pregnancy in Contemporaries

Empowerment through sex education? Rethinking paradoxical policies

Hatékonyság és reflexió – A kortársoktatás pedagógiai módszere az egészségfejlesztés területén Effectiveness and Reflection – Pedagogical Methods of Peer Education in Health Promotion

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