'You Need To Have Some Guts To Teach': Teacher Preparation & Characteristics for the Teaching of Sexuality & HIV/AIDS Education in South African Schools

Using in-depth interviews, we asked sexuality educators in South Africa about their own professional preparation and what they believed were necessary educator characteristics for teaching Sexuality Education. 

Our findings show that our teachers taught Sexuality Education without any appropriate qualification or preparation, but because they had a lighter teaching load and had room to take on more teaching hours. Nevertheless, they all mention that ‘not anybody can teach Sexuality Education’. 

Drawing on Shulman's taxonomy of knowledge and Freire's concept of critical consciousness, we attempt to make meaning of the teachers' responses and their relevance for the teaching of Sexuality Education.

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By: Francis DA1, DePalma R2.

• 1a PhD, is a Professor in School of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban , South Africa.
• 2b PhD, is an Associate Professor in Facultade de Ciencias da Educación at the University of A Coruña , A Coruña , Spain. 
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