Sex education classes
The sex education in Austria sex education , the school dealing with sexuality . It is mostly taught in the context of biology classes or project classes on sexual education and is one of the main concerns of sex education .
Course content and history
In sex education the students are given information about biological principles (anatomy of the genital organs , knowledge of sexual intercourse ) and the social role of sexuality (the complex of topics puberty , finding a partner and sexual ethics ). The possibilities of contraception are specially tailored to young people , knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases and how to protect them are conveyed, and the problems of sexual violence, abuse and harassment are discussed.
In the 1980s came with the AIDS - prevention in the field of sexual infections in the public eye and was also reflected in the curriculum down.
Sex education lessons in the subject canon
Germany
In the GDR, sex education had been part of the curriculum as part of biology classes since 1947 under the title “Reproduction”.
In 1968, the Federal Republic of Germany's Standing Conference for the first time presented transnational “Recommendations on Sex Education in Schools”. On June 10, 1969, the textbook Sexualkunde-Atlas was presented as a nationwide teaching aid for the new subject "Sexualkunde". It was created at the instigation of the Federal Ministry of Health under Minister Käte Strobel and was received controversially. While the Evangelical Church advocates more liberal sex education, Catholic and conservative circles sharply criticized the state's efforts to educate people. From July 1, 1969, the sex education atlas was in bookstores for purchase for the new school year.
Violations due to schoolchildren failing to attend school are penalized in Germany with fines vis-à-vis the parents and with repeated violations with prison sentences of several weeks. It happens again and again that parents try to have their children exempt from attending school sex education “for religious reasons”. On January 19, 2004, the Hamburg Administrative Court issued a much-noticed judgment in this regard, with which an application for the exemption of two Muslim schoolgirls from sex education was rejected: “In the opinion of the judges, the obligation to attend educational hours in biology classes does not violate girls' religious freedom or the right to bring up children their parents, as the court announced. The court argued that ideological neutrality would be preserved in the case of pure knowledge transfer. In addition, the state has a legitimate interest in counteracting the development of 'parallel societies'. An exemption from sex education for ideological reasons would, in the opinion of the judges, promote the 'feeling of being different'. "
In addition to the German Federal Constitutional Court and other constitutional courts of various European nation states, the European Court of Human Rights also ruled in September 2011 that schoolchildren may not be absent from state sex education classes for religious reasons.
Austria
Sex education in school lessons was already anchored in Austria with the basic decree on sex education in schools of November 24, 1970 (circular no. 193/1970), and was confirmed in circular no. 216/1990 of October 23, 1990. The declaration of intent for educational instruction is based on § 2 task of the Austrian School of the School Organization Act (SchOG), which promotes the "educational goals with which the development of young people's facilities, their knowledge and skills in the interest of overall upbringing and personal development be able to ”, as a subject of instruction. It was expressly formulated, however, that "sex education is the primary task of parents / guardians" and that lessons can only "comprehensively [...] supplement this educational work in constant cooperation with the parents by imparting appropriate knowledge and behavior". Therefore, the planning of school sex education takes place in close cooperation with the school community (teaching staff, parents, student representatives, § 62–64 SchUG ), with the advice of the school doctor ( § 66 Paragraph 3 SchUG).
Luxembourg
In the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , sex education officially appeared in the school year 1970/71 as part of the biology teaching program at grammar schools, at that time from Sexta (8th grade), a little later from Septima (7th grade). It has now generalized, both in secondary education and in elementary school.
Croatia
In May 2013, under pressure from the Catholic Church , the highest court in Croatia banned sex education in schools. This ban takes place around two months before Croatia joins the EU.
Poland
As of March 2019, there are no sex education classes in Poland .
materials
The German Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA) and non-governmental organizations such as the German Pro Familia or the Austrian Society for Family Planning have a number of materials on sex education. Some of these are distributed free of charge to multipliers ; online platforms such as Loveline from the BZgA are available.
The Austrian educational training was evaluated in the Love Talks project , which was developed at the Austrian Institute for Family Research ( University of Vienna ) from 1985 and is now also active in Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic.
Web links
Austria:
- www.aufklaerungsunterricht.at , Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture (bm: ukk, https)
- Teaching principles »Sex education , bm: ukk
- Sex education topic page of the portal schule.at
Individual evidence
- ^ Christoph Gunkel: Germany's first sex education atlas. Where are you going for coitus? In: Spiegel Online . June 12, 2019, accessed June 16, 2019 .
- ↑ ENLIGHTENMENT / SEXUAL STUDY ATLAS: So simple . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1969 ( online ).
- ^ Deutsche Welle: Calendar sheet of June 17, 2009 , accessed on June 17, 2009
- ↑ Sex education atlas in the crossfire . In: The time of July 18, 1969, queried on June 17, 2009
- ↑ Queer: European judges: Sex education is compulsory!
- ↑ cit. n. Article on 123recht.net
- ↑ Queer: European judges: Sex education is compulsory!
- ↑ Sex education in schools. Circular No. 216/1990 of October 23, 1990, GZ 36.145 / 28-I / 10/90 (pdf)
- ↑ Quote sex education in schools. 1. Introduction. P. 2 column 1
- ↑ a b quote sex education in schools. 4.3 Cooperation with the parents / legal guardians , p. 3 column 2
- ^ JA Massard (1988): Biology and sex education in Luxembourg. (PDF; 670 kB) Lëtzebuerger Almanach 1989, Luxembourg: 124-131.
- ^ Spiegel.de: Croatia: Judges forbid sex education classes
- ↑ Sex offensive: Top model wants to enlighten Poland - and anger the conservative government
- ↑ www.loveline.de
- ↑ www.lovetalks.org ( Memento of the original dated November 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.oif.ac.at
