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Article: Using peer educators to deliver sex education.(Round up: service delivery)
- Article from:
- Reproductive Health Matters
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Peer-led health education is commonly believed to have distinctive features, such as increased empathy with and similarity to students, which lead to increased student satisfaction and learning compared to teacher-led education. The RIPPLE study in the UK of the effectiveness of sex and relationship education, using peer educators aged 17-18 for students aged 13-14, supports this finding. Student evaluations show that a greater proportion of students found the sessions enjoyable, engaging and useful when taught by peer educators rather than by teachers. The differences seem to lie in the peer educators' choice of lesson content and teaching methods, as well as the sexual ...
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