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Modern Orthodox Jewish school teachers’ and administrators’ perspectives on in-school sexuality education: a descriptive study
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Modern Orthodox Jewish school teachers’ and administrators’ perspectives on in-school sexuality education: a descriptive study
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Shira Deborah
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Shira Deborah Donath
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
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Sexuality education prior to marriage is one of the strongest predictors of marital satisfaction in the Modern Orthodox Jewish community (Maybruch, 2012). Sexuality education within the Modern Orthodox community typically takes place in a formalized way immediately prior to marriage (Lerner, 2007); however, community advocates call for addressing matters pertaining to sexuality prior to that stage of life, as individuals are exposed to sexual material and asking questions about sexuality at steadily younger ages (Debow & Woloski-Wruble, 2007). While some argue that discussing sexuality in high schools with the assumption that students are presently engaging in sexual behaviors or are struggling with their sexual identities will condone and perhaps encourage sexual behavior, which would be in contradiction to Jewish law (Maryles, 2016), others assert that teaching students the skills to grapple with the tension between their personal struggles and Jewish legal expectations should be a core value and goal in Modern Orthodox education (Kahn, 2022). This study explored the perspectives of administrators and faculty within Modern Orthodox Jewish high schools in North America (MOH) regarding in-school sexuality education through surveys conducted online. Thirty administrators and 27 faculty members completed the respective surveys. Most of administrators surveyed (93.3%) and most of faculty members surveyed (96.3%) indicated they thought MOH should offer sexuality education, and 81.5% of faculty members indicated that questions pertaining to sexuality were generated by students with whom they interacted; however, 27.3% reported being provided with talking points from the administration to address these questions and 18.5% reported previous training in sexuality education. Faculty survey data presented two statistically significant findings: 1) Having previous training in sexuality education exhibited a significant, moderate negative relationship with efficacy teaching Halachot (Jewish law) regarding sexuality; and 2) Total years teaching exhibited a strong statistically significant positive relationship with the opinion that MOH should offer sexuality education. Further results and their discussion are presented.
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Religious education
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Sexuality
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Secondary education
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Administrators
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High school
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Jewish
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Modern Orthodox
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Sexuality education
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