Overview
Recently there has been much debate over the adoption, implementation, and maintenance of comprehensive health and sexuality education programs in Massachusetts public schools. Advocates of school-based comprehensive health education programs often use a public health approach to substantiate their position. They cite national and statewide statistics about adolescent sexual activity and unsafe sexual practice as a basis for providing students with the facts and the skills to make decisions to prevent pregnancy and the transmission of sexually-transmitted diseases. Opponents often speak about the parents' role in educating their sons and daughters and object to public school instruction that regards homosexuality and safe sex as acceptable choices. In the literature, many models of community organization focus on the decision-making structure within the community, rather than on the process of social change. Therefore, we often know who makes community decisions, without knowing much about how and why these decisions are made. In this study the process of social change is explored by conducting comparative case studies of two Massachusetts communities.
Full Product Details
Author: Steven Ridini
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.501kg
ISBN: 9780897895705
ISBN 10: 0897895703
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 28 October 1998
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
A first-rate qualitative study and one that deals with an issue that is likely to be current and controversial for some years to come. Few issues stir up a community as much as proposals for health education that involves discussion of sexuality. -Charles V. Willie Professor of Education and Urban Studies Harvard Graduate School of Education
"""A first-rate qualitative study and one that deals with an issue that is likely to be current and controversial for some years to come. Few issues stir up a community as much as proposals for health education that involves discussion of sexuality.""-Charles V. Willie Professor of Education and Urban Studies Harvard Graduate School of Education ?The book is requisite reading for community planners and educational administrators.?-Choice ""The book is requisite reading for community planners and educational administrators.""-Choice"
A first-rate qualitative study and one that deals with an issue that is likely to be current and controversial for some years to come. Few issues stir up a community as much as proposals for health education that involves discussion of sexuality. -Charles V. Willie Professor of Education and Urban Studies Harvard Graduate School of Education ?The book is requisite reading for community planners and educational administrators.?-Choice The book is requisite reading for community planners and educational administrators. -Choice
Author Information
STEVEN P. RIDINI, Ed.D , a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Graduate School of Education's Administration, Planning, and Social Policy program, is vice-president of programs at The Medical Foundation in Boston, MA.
