Abstract:
This paper investigated attitude of secondary school teachers towards teaching sexuality education
in Kano State and draw some Implication for counselling. To achieve this, the paper provides both
theoretical and conceptual previewed especially on sexuality education. The study adopted
descriptive survey research design, the population of the consisted of up all the teachers in all the
secondary schools in Kano state. A total number of 150 secondary schools were sampled using
purposive sampling technique and stratified proportionate sampling technique was used to sample a
total number of 868 teachers for this study. Three research questions and three hypotheses were
formulated and data was collected by the use of researchers self developed instrument named
teachers attitudes toward teaching sexuality education scale (TATTSES).The instrument was
validated by specialist in sexuality education and, test and measurement. The scale was tested in a
pilot study to determine its reliability. Test re-test reliability generated co-efficient of 0.87 using
Crouchback alpha. The collected data was analyzed by the use of t-test and ANOVA and it was
found there is no significant difference between male and female on their attitudes towards sexuality
education, lastly few of the counselling implication drawn are use of Re-Orientation Therapy,
Counsellors need to liaise with religious leaders to raise the danger of culture of silence related to
discussion on sexuality and other reproductive health issues among the families in their Friday and
Sunday sermons among others.
