The problems of sexual education of pupils in foreign pedagogy at the end of the XX-beginning of the XXI centuries

Abstract

In the article, a comparative analysis of sexual education in the leading world countries is made. Four main periods of sexual education genesis have been distinguished, their features and characteristic emphases in the formation of students’ competences during each of these periods have been analyzed. The importance of sexual revolution in changing the approaches to solving the problems of sexual education in educational institutions is emphasized. Different approaches to the content, forms and technologies of sexual education, from abstinence from sexual relations before marriage to radical sexual education with the domination of sexual socialization, have been singled out. The key problem in the content of sexual education development, namely the identification of the relationship between the study of the issues of sexuality and the idea of teaching the abstinence from premarital sexual contacts, have been determined. The necessity of using certain elements of foreign experience in educational institutions of Ukraine has been substantiated.