| dc.description.abstract | The need for information on sexuality becomes even more pertinent in a rapidly changing
world where globalization and technological advancements expose children to a wide range
of influences. Despite the provision of sexuality education, Masaba South Sub County
public secondary schools have been experiencing high girls’ dropout rate due to teenage
pregnancy, abortion-related mortalities and sexual health complications. The purpose of
the study was to establish the teachers and students’ perceptions of the influence of
sexuality education on the students’ behaviour in public secondary schools in Masaba
South Sub County, Kisii County, Kenya. The study was premised on Bandura’s Social
Learning Theory and adopted descriptive survey research design. Fifty principals, 50
guidance and counseling teachers, and 50 chairpersons of the student councils from 50 day
public schools were targeted. Census sampling technique was used to sample all the 50
guidance and counseling teachers. Through simple random sampling 30.0 % of principals
and 30.0 % chairpersons of the student councils were sampled. Data were collected through
guidance and counselling teachers’ questionnaires, principals’ interview schedules and
students’ focus group discussions. Content and construct types of validity were ascertained
through scrutiny by the two supervisors assigned to the researcher. The reliability of the
teachers’ questionnaire was ascertained by test-retest technique. Both descriptive and
inferential data were used to analyze the data. Qualitative data were put into broad themes
for interpretation. However, some qualitative data were used verbatim to maintain the
power of the participants’ spoken words. The study found that the adolescence and sexual
development education offered in schools was inadequate to cater for the physical and
psychology challenges faced by the public day secondary students in Masaba South Sub
County in Kisii County. Students, principals, and G&C teachers acknowledged that unlike
in the past, the information on transmission and prevention of HIV and other STIs seem to
have become less persuasive to both students and teachers in avoiding risky sexual
behaviours. The study findings may assist in bridging the gap between the theory, practice
and the outcome of human sexuality education. | en_US |
