Toward an Internet-driven, theoretically-based, innovative approach to sex education
Toward an Internet-driven, theoretically-based, innovative approach to sex education
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DOI：
10.1080/00224490109552103
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发表时间：
2001-11-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Fisher, WA
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作者：
Barak, A;Fisher, WA
性教育的目的是使个人具备与性有关的信息，动机和行为技能，使他们能够避免与性有关的问题，并实现性健康。现有的性教育课程通常是通过相对被动的课堂教学技术来提供的，并且在实现其目标方面是否有效值得怀疑。当前的讨论呼吁开发一种基于互联网的、理论驱动的、创新的性教育方法。这种方法将互联网作为一种丰富的、互动的、个性化的教学工具的特殊优势与经过充分验证的行为科学理论的优势结合在一起，以便以非常具有成本效益的方式向大量个人提供有效的性教育。该方法是基于信息-动机-行为技能模型（J. FisherFisher，1992; W。Fisher & Fisher，出版中），并利用使用互联网的匿名性，可用性，可负担性，可接受性和孤独性的特点。在这种方法中，学习者首先在信息，动机和行为技能缺陷方面进行单独评估，这些缺陷与个人的性问题和性健康有关。学习者然后参加个别有针对性的性教育活动，利用相关材料，包括文本，多媒体组件，并链接到相关网站，这解决了个别学习者的经验确定的需求和目标。文章最后呼吁开发和评估创新的、互联网驱动的、基于理论的性教育方法。
Sex education is aimed at equipping individuals with sex-related information, motivation, and behavioral skills that will enable them to avoid sex-related problems and to achieve sexual well-being. Existing sex education programs are generally delivered via relatively passive classroom-based pedagogical techniques and are questionably effective in achieving their aims. The current discussion calls for the development of an Internet-based, theoretically-driven, innovative approach to sex education. This approach weds the special strengths of the Internet as a rich, interactive, individualized pedagogical tool with the strengths of well-validated behavioral science theory in order to provide effective sex education to large numbers of individuals in a very cost-effective fashion. The proposed approach is based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills model (J. Fisher Fisher, 1992; W. Fisher & Fisher, in press), and exploits the characteristics of anonymity, availability, affordability, acceptability, and aloneness of using the Internet. Within this approach, learners are first individually assessed in terms of information, motivation, and behavioral skills deficits that are relevant to the individual's sexual problems and sexual well-being. Learners then participate in individually targeted sex education activities-utilizing relevant materials including text, multimedia components, and links to associated sites-which address the individual learner's empirically identified needs and goals. The article concludes with a call for development and evaluation of innovative, Internet-driven, theoretically-based approaches to sex education.