Bridging the Gap: A Workshop to Support Sexual Education Outside of School
type: CreativeWork
description: Sex education cannot simply provide the “facts” about sex; students must be given the space and support to make connections between the information they receive and their own behaviors. In order to meet the immediate developmental needs of young people I have created a one-­‐day workshop for girls, which is meant to augment current sexual education programming. The aim of the one-­‐day workshop is to bridge the gap between information that girls have received from school programming or parents with the new emotional and physical sensations specific to their developing sexuality, to foster connections with peers, and instill a sense of normalcy and self-­‐authenticity.
abstract: Sex education cannot simply provide the “facts” about sex; students must be given the space and support to make connections between the information they receive and their own behaviors. In order to meet the immediate developmental needs of young people I have created a one-­‐day workshop for girls, which is meant to augment current sexual education programming. The aim of the one-­‐day workshop is to bridge the gap between information that girls have received from school programming or parents with the new emotional and physical sensations specific to their developing sexuality, to foster connections with peers, and instill a sense of normalcy and self-­‐authenticity.
author: Lambrecht, Rachel
keywords: girl, adolescents, sex education, workshop, coming of age, social emotional learning, Curriculum and Instruction, Education, Other Education
date published: 2016-12-01T08:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T02:04:44Z
provider: Dominican University of California
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Dominican University of California