Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h5OG0qC22707; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:00:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:00:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <sef83d03.079@langate.gsu.edu> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Daphne Greenberg" <alcdgg@langate.gsu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2625] issues for teens in our health literacy classes X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.0.4 Beta Status: O Content-Length: 1145 Lines: 18 Some of us have classes geared towards teens 16 and over who have dropped out of school and want to get their GED. One approach is to utilize health literacy as a way to promote reading. With this age group, sex education is often very pertinent to their lives. Many instructors promote abstinence-only-until-marriage modules in their sex education literacy modules and are bumping up against these issues with their learners: 1. Many of the students are already sexually active. 2. Many of the students have/or in the past have been sexually abused. 3. Many of these students have parents who are not married. 4. Students who are gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning are exposed to a curriculum that only focuses on relationships that does not include them. Have any of you incorporated sex education in your health literacy classes with your teen students? Have any of you experienced any of the above issues? Daphne Daphne Greenberg Associate Director Center for the Study of Adult Literacy MSC 6A0360 Georgia State University 33 Gilmer Street SE Unit 6 Atlanta, GA 30303-3086 phone: 404-651-0127 fax:404-651-4901 dgreenberg@gsu.edu
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