Values in Sexuality Education: A Philosophical Education

By Ronald Morris

This book challenges the perception that sexuality educators ought to remain value-neutral and that sexual-values education is an object in the school designed to solve sexual-moral problems. Contents: List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: REVIEW AND CRITIQUE OF THE LITERATURE'S PHILOSOPHICAL ORIENTATION ON VALUES IN SEXUALITY EDUCATION; Values and Sexuality Education in Historical Perspective; The Crisis-Instrumental Paradigm and the Ethic of Value-Neutrality; Sexuality Education and Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development; PART TWO: TOWARD A MORE HOLISTIC VIEW OF SEXUAL-VALUES EDUCATION; Robert Kegan's Theory of Human Development; Sexuality, Valuing, and the Cultures of Embeddedness in Kegan's Development Stages; Educational Principles and Issues Arising; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081919557X
• ISBN13: 9780819195579
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 132 Pages