ATTITUDES OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS TOWARDS TEACHING SEXUALITY EDUCATION IN KANO STATE: IMPLICATION FOR COUNSELLING

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.