Exploring Identities to Deepen Understanding of Urban High School Students' Sexual Health Decision-Making

Autor/inn/en	Brotman, Jennie S.; Mensah, Felicia Moore; Lesko, Nancy
Titel	Exploring Identities to Deepen Understanding of Urban High School Students' Sexual Health Decision-Making
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 47 (2010) 6, S.742-762 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4308
DOI	10.1002/tea.20370
Schlagwörter	Ethnography; Sexuality; Grade 12; Decision Making; Urban Schools; High School Students; Health Behavior; Risk; Identification (Psychology); Family Influence; Environmental Influences; Peer Influence; Religion; Social Influences; Gender Issues; Student Responsibility; Moral Values; Minority Groups; English (Second Language); Low Income Groups; Focus Groups; Interviews; Observation; Interpersonal Relationship; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Sexualität; School year 12; 12. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 12; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Risiko; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Sozialer Einfluss; Geschlechterfrage; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Ethnische Minderheit; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Beobachtung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Abstract	Sexual health is a controversial science topic that has received little attention in the field of science education, despite its direct relevance to students' lives and communities. Moreover, research from other fields indicates that a great deal remains to be learned about how to make school learning about sexual health influence the real-life choices of students. In order to provide a more nuanced understanding of young people's decision-making, this study examines students' talk about sexual health decision-making through the lens of identities. Qualitative, ethnographic research methods with twenty 12th grade students attending a New York City public school are used to illustrate how students take on multiple identities in relation to sexual health decision-making. Further, the study illustrates how these identities are formed by various aspects of students' lives, such as school, family, relationships, and religion, and by societal discourses on topics such as gender, individual responsibility, and morality. The study argues that looking at sexual health decision-making--and at decision-making about other controversial science topics--as tied to students' identities provides a useful way for teachers and researchers to grasp the complexity of these decisions, as a step toward creating curriculum that influences them. (Contains 1 figure and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10