Decolonising education on adolescent sexuality: critiquing human rights sex education as a continued colonial imposition in Africa

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dc.date.accessioned 2023-08-31T13:01:13Z
dc.date.available 2023-08-31T13:01:13Z
dc.date.issued 2023-08-31 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/22185
dc.description.abstract Contemporary sexual ideologies that inform our knowledge about men's, women's, and queer sexuality in most parts of Africa are products of foreign imperial and missionary expansion across our continent. The cultural invasion of Africa resulted in the silencing of Africans' authentic identification and practices in various socio-cultural aspects, including their sexualities. Thus, the disposition of gender and sexuality education in contemporary African societies is a legacy of a colonial past that enforced the reconstruction of cultural values and knowledge systems on account of European standards and practices. Consequently, this created a society that is exposed to knowledge systems and practices such as gender and sexual ideologies that have limited exposure to indigenous culture and practice. The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of dominant and normative ideologies on shaping sexuality in Africa, embedded within approaches such as comprehensive sexuality education and human rights framings. The paper is qualitative in nature which includes scoping literature for review based on key concepts informed by the purpose of the paper. In addition, the paper was guided by themes emerging in the literature reviewed. Content analysis was used to compare the quality of the discussion of literature in the various papers that formed part of this paper. Based on the findings, we suggest excavating some of the principles that have framed sexuality and educational practices that are part of indigenous African cultures. en
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dc.subject DECOLONISATION en
dc.subject EDUCATION en
dc.subject ADOLESCENTS en
dc.subject SEXUALITY en
dc.subject HUMAN RIGHTS en
dc.subject SEX EDUCATION en
dc.title Decolonising education on adolescent sexuality: critiquing human rights sex education as a continued colonial imposition in Africa en
dc.type Journal Article en
dc.description.version Y en
dc.ProjectNumber N/A en
dc.Volume 4(2) en
dc.BudgetYear 2023/24 en
dc.ResearchGroup Impact Centre en
dc.SourceTitle Journal of African Education en
dc.ArchiveNumber 9813869 en
dc.URL http://ktree.hsrc.ac.za/doc_read_all.php?docid=27255 en
dc.PageNumber 165-187 en
dc.outputnumber 14526 en
dc.bibliographictitle Neluheni, M.G., Isaacs, N. & Moolman, B. (2023) Decolonising education on adolescent sexuality: critiquing human rights sex education as a continued colonial imposition in Africa. Journal of African Education. 4(2):165-187. en
dc.publicationyear 2023 en
dc.contributor.author1 Neluheni, M.G. en
dc.contributor.author2 Isaacs, N. en
dc.contributor.author3 Moolman, B. en


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