Subject SexIQ - An improved sexual education for students in Jr. high school

Abstract: Communication is steadily becoming more and more important in human beings everyday life. All around us, companies, advertisement agencies and regular people are working hard to find proper channels to communicate their information. With this abundance of information around us, problems in sorting which information is important and correct vs. what is pure reflection are bound to arise. We face a increasing difficulty in reaching a certain target group. This report accounts for a project started by two students in cooperation with Landstinget i Östergötland, Ungdomshälsan i Norrköping and Victoriaskolan in Norrköping. The project investigates proper methods for communicating sex education to younger teenagers. The project began as a theoretical project but developed into an actual project. A lot of effort has gone into building a foundation for what types of information is relevant for the students and which method this information should be conveyed to the students in. From this a proposition for how sexual education in Swedish schools can be changed and improved from a student’s perspective compared to what it is today. The purpose of this degree project has been to explore what the current sexual´education today consists of and how students feel about it. Further the purpose has been to find out what information that as of today is available but isn’t conveyed to the students, and to from this material and some additions present a basis for all teachers to use as a support for sexual education in Sweden. Qualitative studies have been made through interviews with teachers and students at two schools with differing prior experience with sexual education. A lot of information has been gathered from RFSU and there has been an open dialogue with Ungdomshälsan in Norrköping and the Center for Disease Control at Landstinget i Östergötland. In other words, the project has been conducted with assistance from teachers, students and specialists in the area who also work with conveying information to youths. To ensure a arbitrary result a evaluation of the project by students and teachers has also been performed at the school that hosted the Theme-week. The conclusion of these can be found as an appendix in this report.