Teaching human sexuality in higher education: A case from Western Kenya

Khamasi, Jennifer Wanjiku; Undie, Chi-Chi

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“…This finding shows that parents and teachers do not give adequate information on reproduction and pregnancy prevention to adolescents. These findings are supported by other studies [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31].…”

Section: Perceptions On Parental Approval and The Influence Of Sexualsupporting

confidence: 89%

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“They Will Wonder What Kind of a Girl I Am”: Adolescent Perceptions towards Contraceptive Use in Nairobi

Kinaro¹

2013

ASM

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As in other developing countries, contraceptive use among adolescents is low and only one in twenty adolescents is reported to use contraceptives in Kenya. Pregnancies early in life expose adolescents to health complications. Establishing perceptions that affect contraception and factors that influence those perceptions is important in developing appropriate programs and policies to increase contraceptive use prevalence among adolescents. We used primary data from a household survey using a systematic random sampling in eight administrative divisions in Nairobi County in 2010. The study utilized information collected using structured interviews, focus group discussions (FGDs) and in-depth interviews (IDIs). The findings revealed that perceptions on parental approval, adolescent approval, ability to get contraceptives for self, knowledge of how to use contraceptives and sexual partner communication had significant effect on contraception. The narratives showed that parents, teachers and service providers had negative perceptions and discouraged contraception among adolescents thereby influencing use. Parents and teachers had inadequate knowledge and skills to communicate sexuality messages creating potential environment likely to have indirect negative influence on adolescents' perceptions on contraception.

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Section: Perceptions On Parental Approval and The Influence Of Sexualsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Another study supports the need to equip teachers with the skills necessary to counsel adolescents: a well prepared teacher was able to comfortably share experiences of sexuality and to make a classroom a safe space for dialogue [29].…”

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“They Will Wonder What Kind of a Girl I Am”: Adolescent Perceptions towards Contraceptive Use in Nairobi

Kinaro¹

2013

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“…This work generally conceives of monetary or material components of nonmarital sexual partnerships as commodity exchange, where money and gifts are assumed to be direct payments for (unsafe) sex (Meekers and Calves 1997 b ; Côtè et al 2004; Dunkle et al 2004; Chatterji et al 2005). Numerous social scientists have criticized this view of African sexuality as promiscuous in general and commercial in particular, arguing that it reflects a Western preoccupation with morality and the commoditization of human attributes, including labor and sexuality (Kopytoff 1989; Zelizer 1994; Heald 1995; Setel 1999; Arnfred 2004; Khamasi and Maina-Chinkuyu 2005; Smith 2007). They explain that material exchange has traditionally been part of intimate sexual, marital, and familial reciprocal relationships in Africa (Bloch 1989; Bloch and Parry 1989; Helle-Valle 2005; Shipton 2007) and that transactional sex in the contemporary era must be understood as rooted in persistent gender and economic inequalities, particularly the absence of formal labor market opportunities for women.…”

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Migrants’ Competing Commitments: Sexual Partners in Urban Africa and Remittances to the Rural Origin

Luke

2010

American Journal of Sociology

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Migrants form nonfamilial ties in urban destinations, which could compete with origin families for a share of remittances. A framework of competing commitment predicts that new relationships affect remittances depending on the extent to which they substitute for the benefits provided by origin families. Analyses of data from urban migrants in Kenya show that serious nonmarital sexual partners substitute for psychosocial support from the rural family and that material transfers migrants give to these partners significantly reduce remittances. The findings have implications for the ways scholars conceive of competition, the nature of exchange, and substitution of support across intimate relationships.

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Learning to negotiate sexual relationships: a girls’ school in Tanzania as a restrictive and agentic site

Willemsen

DeJaeghere

2015

Gender and Education

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Literature on schooling in Africa often frames sexual relationships as threatening girls' educational participation, health, and general well-being. Schooling practices aimed at sheltering girls reflect the prevalence of discourses emphasising danger and abstinence. This article presents the case of one all-girls school in Tanzania which provides a protective environment while also teaching young women strategies to negotiate sexual and romantic relationships. Drawing on classroom observations and in-depth interviews, we examine how the school's policies, practices, and lifeskills curriculum offer students a supportive environment in which to learn about relationships. Our analysis reveals that young women find this space simultaneously restrictive and freeing, and that their learning has supported their ability to imagine equitable relationships for themselves. This case contributes to our understanding of how schools can serve as sites that foster young women's agency when curriculum and pedagogy create space for open discussion of sexual relationships.

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Teaching human sexuality in higher education: A case from Western Kenya

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“They Will Wonder What Kind of a Girl I Am”: Adolescent Perceptions towards Contraceptive Use in Nairobi

“They Will Wonder What Kind of a Girl I Am”: Adolescent Perceptions towards Contraceptive Use in Nairobi

Migrants’ Competing Commitments: Sexual Partners in Urban Africa and Remittances to the Rural Origin

Learning to negotiate sexual relationships: a girls’ school in Tanzania as a restrictive and agentic site

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