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Training Peer Counsellors and Professionals in Human Sexuality and Family Life Education

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
September 1984

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The training of peer counselors and family life educators has shifted from a medical-biological orientation to the social sciences. In the process the related curriculum has developed from “the facts of life” to the concerns of everyday living. And, the teaching has changed from information giving lectures in a telling style of teaching to an experiential format in a participative, student-centered style of teaching. Important milestones during the past three decades are described to indicate the trend leading to the use of human sexuality education as a vehicle for personal growth and self actualization.

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La formation des conseillers-pairs et des éducateurs familiaux est passée d'une orientation médico-biologique à une approche issue des sciences humaines. En cours de route, les contenus ont abandonné les “faits de la vie” pour se porter sur les préoccupations de la vîe quotidienne. La pratique éducative a elle aussi changé: de l'information donnée sous forme de cours, on en est arrivé à une formation expérientielle via la participation et l'autogestion de l'apprentissage par l'étudiant. On décrit dans cet article les jalons importants de cette évolution au cours des trois dernières décades; on indique aussi la tendance actuelle à utiliser l'éducation sexuelle pour favoriser la croissance personnelle et l'actualisation.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 3Number 2September 1984
Pages: 91 - 99

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Version of record online: 28 April 2009

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Robert J. Nagge

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