Sexuality Education: Upper Secondary Students' Conversations on Contraceptive Methods

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Abstract

In this study we examine how upper secondary students express their notion of contraceptives. The data collection comprises audio recordings during an educational sequence of natural scientific sexuality education. With an outset in Haraway’s cyborg theory, we analyse human-nonhuman relations emerging in the student conversations on hormonal contraceptive methods as well as digital alternatives. The analysis shows that facts concerning human reproduction is of importance for student’s understanding of advantages and disadvantages of various contraceptive methods. However, the student conversations on contraceptives extended beyond a traditional protective approach, one of the main concerns for the natural scientific sexuality education. The final discussion also concerns the exercise of biopower, hence the governmental interest in sexuality education.

Authors

• Sara Planting-Bergloo, Stockholm University

• Auli Arvola Orlander, Department of Mathematics and Science Education

• Britt Jakobsson, Stockholm University