Secondary Education and Class Stratification: Understanding the Hierarchy of Sexuality Education in a Chinese Vocational High School

The discussion of sexuality education has a long history in China since the onset of modernisation in the early 20th century. Sexuality education has also existed in China's educational system for a long time but in various forms. However, the discussions regarding students' experiences an...

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Published inChildren (Basel) Vol. 9; no. 10; p. 1524
Main Author Liu, Chong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 05.10.2022
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Subjects
China
Colleges & universities
Compulsory education
Cultural capital
Culture
Developing countries
education system
Education, Secondary
Entrance examinations
Families & family life
Field study
High schools
Inequality
LDCs
Pediatrics
Secondary schools
Sexual behavior
Sexuality
sexuality education
Social aspects
Social capital
Social classes
social stratification
Society
Students
Teenagers
Vocational education
young people
Youth
United Kingdom
China
Germany
sexuality education
social stratification
education system
young people
China
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Summary:The discussion of sexuality education has a long history in China since the onset of modernisation in the early 20th century. Sexuality education has also existed in China's educational system for a long time but in various forms. However, the discussions regarding students' experiences and the influence of social stratification in China's particular social context are still limited. From March to September 2019, the author visited an academic high school ( ) and a vocational high school ( ) in Tianjin, China, to gain first-hand data to understand young people's sexuality education experiences. In this paper, the author specifically paid attention to China's social class, a rarely discussed topic in China's society. She also tried to listen to the voices of young people and schoolteachers and help them to be heard. By presenting the insights from schoolteachers, students, as well as the materials from a nationally approved textbook, the author conducted a thematic analysis about how social class influences young people's sexuality education experiences in secondary education in China.
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ISSN:2227-9067
2227-9067
DOI:10.3390/children9101524