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Silver, Rachel; Morley, Alyssa – Gender and Education, 2022
Sexual regulation has been a core component of formal schooling in Southern Africa since its inception, with discipline central to teachers' work. Yet internationally funded, girl-focused development programs give new shape and legitimacy to teacher interventions on student sexuality. Building on a combined two years of multi-sited ethnographic…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Females, Program Development, Intervention
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Annang, Lucy; Hannon, Lonnie; Fletcher, Faith E.; Horn, Wendy Sykes; Cornish, Disa – American Journal of Health Behavior, 2011
Objectives: To describe how nominal group technique (NGT) was used to inform the development of a sexual health education program for black high school youth in the South. Methods: NGT was used with a community advisory board (CAB) to obtain information regarding the key components of a sexual health program for youth in their community. Results:…
Descriptors: African American Students, Health Education, Sex Education, Advisory Committees
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Trivedi, D.; Brooks, F.; Bunn, F.; Graham, M. – Health Education Research, 2009
Teenage pregnancy prevention programmes targeted at young women have received considerable attention from researchers and programme developers. However, to date, relatively limited information is available on preventing teenage fatherhood or improving outcomes for young fathers. A notable gap is concerned with understanding the forms of sexual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews, Health Promotion, Females
Frankford, Evelyn R. – 1978
This program seeks to prevent adolescent pregnancy and childbearing through a community-based feminist social service program serving teenage girls. This DAWN program, Discovery and Awareness for Women Now, was initiated as a result of the Women's Movement which has had a serious and positive impact on the lives of most adult women. Yet, teenage…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Education, Community Problems, Contraception
Swanson, Julie Hanson – 1999
New Horizons is a nonschool program that demystifies and communicates essential information on basic life skills and reproductive health to Egyptian girls and young women aged 9-20. The program consists of 100 hour-long sessions, each including an introduction to a specific topic, review of group knowledge level, discussion around key points…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescents, Daily Living Skills, Disadvantaged
Population Inst., Washington, DC. – 1977
The problem of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing is addressed. The document is a result of a conference of youth service agencies, family planning organizations, policy makers, health service providers, and leaders in sex education. Following summaries of participants' discussion of the nature of the problem and strategies for program…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Rate, Change Strategies, Conference Reports