ABSTRACT

This research is concerned with teachers and students attitude towards the teaching of sex education in secondary schools in Enugu education zone of Enugu state.

This study was conducted in three local government areas that made up the zone. They are Enugu North, Enugu East, and Isi-Uzo. The zone is made up of thirty four (34) secondary schools, out of which ten were randomly sampled and used for this research work. The instrument used to obtain information was questionnaire items drawn from four research questions. The researchers constructed twenty item questionnaires which were arranged on modified likert scale, strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree. The researchers made some recommendations and one of the recommendations is that sex education should be made compulsory to all secondary school and the subject family life taught in school should be replaced with sex education.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title page

Approval page

Certification page

Dedication page

Acknowledgement

Abstract

Table of contents

CHAPTER ONE

Introduction

Background of the study

Statement of the problem

Purpose of the study

Significance of the study

Scope of the study

Research question

CHAPTER TWO

Review of related literature

Sex education and its objectives

Sex issues and cultural belief

Strategies for effective sex education

Benefits of effective sex education

Who teaches sex education

CHAPTER THREE

Research method

Research design

Area of the study

Population of the study

Sample and sampling techniques

Instrument for data collection

Validation of the instrument

Reliability of the instrument

Method of data collection

Method of data analysis

CHAPTER FOUR

Presentation and analysis of data

Research question 1

Research question 2

Research question 3

Research question 4

CHAPTER FIVE

Discussion of result

Educational implication of the study

Suggestion for further work

Conclusion

Recommendation

References

APPENDIX 1

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