Attitude of School Teachers Towards Sex Education in Srirangam Taluka, Trichy District

摘要

Sex education plays a major role in enhancing the life of the students with proper guidance, if not guided properly they may face severe problems in their upcoming ages. The schools have a vital role in educating the students about sex education and hence the researcher decided to study the attitudes of the school teachers towards sex education. For this purpose, the researcher selected The Govt Boys and The Govt Girls Higher secondary school teachers . The researcher used simple random sampling and selected 25 male and 25 female higher secondary teaching staff. Self prepared questionnaire was used to assess the attitude of school teachers and the various areas that is to be focused in sex education at the school level. Findings revealed that more than half of the respondents (52%) had high attitude towards sex education. There is no significance with the gender of the respondents with regard to the level of attitude towards sex education, there is no significant relationship between the age of the respondents and their level of attitude towards sex education.