Why ERIK*A?
Better sex education can lead to a healthy and respectful understanding of sexuality, thus make an important contribution to individual and societal development.
Health Education: SexEd can help promote awareness of sexual health, the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, and the importance of contraceptives.
Prevention of Abuse and Violence: SexEd can help raise awareness of sexual abuse and violence and teach strategies for prevention.
Promotion of Equality: SexEd can help to promote awareness of gender equality and break stereotypes.
Acceptance of Diversity: SexEd can help promote awareness of the diversity of sexual orientations and gender identities and break down prejudices.
ERIK*A investigates the current sex education at Bavarian schools. Based on our previous research, there seems to be a crucial discrepancy between the given curriculum and the actual teaching.
Due to a lack of research on this discrepancy, ERIK*A attempts to give a status report of current sex education at Bavarian schools and to find out how holistic sex education should actually be designed to meet the demands of experts, teachers and students. We therefore investigate the following research question:
What are the demands and hurdles in the theory-practice transfer in sex education at Bavarian schools?
Team Members
- Tina Schiele (Psychology/Educational Sciences)
- Johanna Lebmeier (Health Science)
- Rui Yee Loke (Physics of Synthetic Biological Systems)
- Sophie Ebert (Conservation and Landscape Planning)
- Daniel Gögelein (Responsibility in Engineering, Science and Technology)
Tutors
- Monica Dechene
- Nico Michel