Éduquer à la santé et à la sexualité, c’est transmettre aussi des valeurs

Abstract

The current conception of the Health Education is at the heart of education of the person and citizen (WHO 1997 and 1999), in a learning perspective of freedom and of «living together» , rather that integration of normative precepts. The Health Education and Sexuality course is directly affected by school teaching practices, but also by the conceptions that teachers have been built on health issues, sexuality and their mission. This paper presents, firstly, a content analysis of textbooks dealing with subjects with high educational outreach related to the Health Education and sexuality, in order to identify the values transmitted by these manuals. In a second step, we sought to analyze, using a questionnaire, the conceptions of current and future teachers and to identify the values reflected in these conceptions. Detailed results are presented and discussed.