保健体育科教師における性に関する指導の意欲―インタビュー調査の結果から

• Published in: 身体運動文化研究 p. physicalarts.2025.001
• Main Authors: 片岡, 千恵, 佐藤, 貴弘, 古田, 映布, 戸村, 貴史, 木塚, 宙敬, 泉, 彩夏, 小出, 真奈美, 宮地, 美帆
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: 身体運動文化学会 2025
• ISSN: 1340-4393; 2436-8032
• DOI: 10.51078/physicalarts.2025.001

In Japan, sexuality education in health classes has been improving in recent years including the revision of the Courses of Study. However, it has been pointed out that children’s knowledge of sexuality is still insufficient. Therefore, it is necessary to further improve classroom practices in the future to better achieve the target learning outcomes about sexuality for students. One of the measures to achieve this is to increase the motivation of health and physical education teachers to teach about sexuality. The purposes of this study were to qualitatively clarify the status of motivation in sexuality education among health and physical education teachers. During the period from February to March 2022, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 health and physical education teachers who were working at junior high schools or high schools. The obtained data （utterances） were transcribed and analyzed by a qualitative descriptive method. Regarding the status of motivation in sexuality education among health and physical education teachers, we found four categories, namely,［ recognition of importance of sexuality education］,［ trial and error in tackling challenges presented by sexuality education］,［ efforts to improve the outcomes of sexuality education］, and ［devised approaches in sexuality education］, and 12 subcategories. Overall, health and physical education teachers were seriously considering sexuality education and were making sincere efforts to provide classroom practices. To improve the motivation in sexuality education among health and physical education teachers in the future, it was considered that they are required to have a better understanding of the concept of sexuality education and the content of the Course of Study. In addition, it is important that they also have more opportunities to attend classes conducted by other teachers and to hold lesson studies. In teacher training and in-service training, it is desirable to guarantee time to learn how to develop lessons on sexuality education and to create specific teaching materials.