Reiss, Michael; (2003) Sex and relationships education. In: Beck, J and Earl, M, (eds.) Key Issues in Secondary Education: Introductory Readings. (pp. 172-181). Continuum, Bloomsbury Publishing: London, UK.

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The teaching of sex education in schools raises a number of contentious issues. For one thing, whether sex education should even be taught in schools is questioned by some. Then, the precise aims of sex education vary greatly. Other issues include the age at which school sex education should start, the teaching approaches to be used, the framework(s) of values within which it should take place, whether or not parents have the right to withdraw their children from school sex education, whether classes should (sometimes) be single sex, who should teach it, the training which teachers of sex education should receive and where within the school curriculum it should be taught. In addition, there are conceptual difficulties in deciding how best to evaluate sex education. This chapter cannot deal with all these issues but focuses on questions of especial importance for those training to be school teachers or early in their teaching careers.

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