How Effective Is Peer Education in Addressing Young People's Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs in Developing Countries?

Autor/inn/en	Price, Neil; Knibbs, Sarah
Titel	How Effective Is Peer Education in Addressing Young People's Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs in Developing Countries?
Quelle	In: Children & Society, 23 (2009) 4, S.291-302 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-0605
DOI	10.1111/j.1099-0860.2008.00175.x
Schlagwörter	Health Needs; Health Promotion; Youth; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Peer Teaching; Peer Influence; Developing Nations; Foreign Countries; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); Social Influences; Teaching Methods; Intervention; Power Structure; Poverty; Gender Bias + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Sexual transmitted disease; Geschlechtskrankheit; Peer group teaching; Peer Group Teaching; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Ausland; Sozialer Einfluss; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Armut; Geschlechterstereotyp
Abstract	This review article questions the assumptions at the core of peer education interventions adopted in young people's sexual and reproductive health programmes in developing countries. Peer education is a more complex and problematic approach than its popularity with development agencies and practitioners implies. Its rise to prominence is more indicative of the desire to find effective tools to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic, than of peer education's proven effectiveness. The often simplistic model of social relations that underlies peer education interventions leads to the reinforcement of gendered power relations, and a failure to take account of the social dynamics of poverty. The dominant rationales for peer education are examined and contested. In spite of the mismatch between rhetoric and experience, the appeal of the approach remains powerful, stemming largely from the objective of engaging young people in health interventions in a way that increases their autonomy and capacity. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10