カナダ連邦政府のセクシュアル・ヘルス教育とカナダの学校における性教育の現状

抄録

　In recent years, the importance of the sexual health promotion is being recognized by cooperation of an international organization as a problem of human rights.

　In Canada, a federal government publishes “Canadian Guidelines for Sexual Health Education (CGSHE) ”, and each state Department of Education wrestles with sex education in the school aiming at sexual health promotion, too.

　In this research, we conducted a survey on the Federal Government of Canada's Trend on Sexual Health Education and School-Based Sex Education in Canada for aiming to get useful suggestions to improve school-based sex education in Japanese schools.

　From the findings, we recognized the followings.

(1) “CGSHE” catches a target of the sex education in inclusive and puts promotion of a sexual health of the Canadian people on a core of a goal of sex education.

(2) “CGSHE” places great importance to respect sexual diversity as one of the idea of the sexual health education.

(3) In the all provinces except for Quebec, school-based sex education is taught in one of the units of health education. And in the early puberty, except for Manitoba, learning outcomes about human sexuality are taught at every grade.

(4) The topic of “abstinence” is included in nearly all school-based sex education. And it's also taught about birth control methods.

(5) The Federal Government of Canada and the Department of Education expect that the school-based sex education should aim to acquire life skills and building better relationships.

(6) When school-based sex education is implemented, learning outcomes and learning time is announced for the family in advance. If parents or guardians do not want their children to take sex education classes, it is allowed to have no sex education classes under the permission of the principal and teachers.

　In Canada, the Federal Government publishes “Guidelines” and is working on all Canadians' sexual health promotion. And the Department of Education, by implementing school-based sex education with reference to the guidelines, showing the attitude to work on comprehensive sexual health promotion for schoolchildren. In Japan, it is expected that the students' rights are respected when the school-based sex education is implemented. In order to take support on students' sexual health, it is necessary to acquire consensus widely from not only the school education but also whole society.