STUDENTS PERCEPTION OF INTRODUCTION TO SEX EDUCATION INTO SECONDARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM IN IJAGBO OYUN LOCAL GOVERNMENT, KWARA STATE
Abstract
An important but most undennined phenomenon that has ploughed the society for many years is sex education. This phenomenon is so complicated that people have different view about it. Eduwen (2003) see sex education as the provision of sex infonnation or knowledge to people. He stressed further to say that sex education is a comprehensive program of individual development right from infancy to declining years still on, he says that sex educat on is a program designed to produce socially and morally desirable sexual attitude, value and personal behaviors. He concluded that this concept is broad in scope as it encompasses family life education, marital affair and the entire process of reproduction and development. Sex education is one of the major determinants of future stability in families of any nation. It is a comprehensive and systematic development program extending from infancy to maturity. It is planned and directed to produce social and moral desirable sexual attitudes, practices and behavior;
According to Fakunle (1990), he defined sex education as a process of making the individual develop a positive and wholesome attitude towards sex. It is also a process that will enable the individual to enjoy his or her life fully developing into a responsible member of the society to which he or she belongs for the child to develop as positive and wholesome attitude towards sex. Sex education is the instruction about sex and human sexuality which children are supposed to receive but many parents do not instruct their children about sex at all. With the greater freedom of discussion of sex in our society and the early maturity of children today.
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