Through the project Ed-sex-tra five main findings was produced to find out 'How can TIE educate and explore sexual health awareness through an inclusive method?. The project was successful in many ways.
• Barriers were identified which could affect an individual's learning experience in a sexual health lesson. These included; embarrassment, peer pressure, religious and cultural views on the topic, the educators training and school's SRE programmes in place. Addressing these can prevent a negative learning experience for an individual.
• Creating interactive activities through inclusive workshops enables a comfortable learning environment; this was a different learning experience for many of the participants.
• Over 70% of the participants came away from the workshops with new information about sexual health, whether that was at Chickenshed or within the school setting.
• The use of multi-agency work, with local nurses, clinics, schools, youth services and minority groups like homeless or BME communities works well together and is also needed to produce a support network for young people which is provided before and after the programme.
• Creating an environment where multi-accessible learning inventions are in place will benefit more people. For example, using interactive learning - group work, media - music, visuals - a piece of theatre, pictures, and expression - writing, movement or speech. This was key to the enjoyment and learning experience of the participants.
A project like Ed-sex-tra using an open, creative and accessible theatrical technique, inclusive theatre to educate young people works. The interactive approach engages young people in a positive learning experience which is fun.
laura,
ReplyDeleteit sounds like your project was a great sucess in many ways, congrats! its impressive that both through looking at sexual health in interactive inclusive workshops and in a stable environment enabled the learning of the target youth audience, both in and out of chickenshed, to come away with a 70% sucess rate for sexual health awareness.
the creative theatre environment you and steph created and put into practice cleverly uses multi-acessible learning inventions, enabling many various tools to teach the subject. i particularly like how you have used both interactive learning in group work- music, visual, movement, as well as allowing the target group to use expression of writing.
this is a very new way to teach the subject, and it sound as if you both had fun in doing the project, and found a very useful tool of teaching. do you feel this method could be applied to different topics/project?i feel you could go a long way with this in the future. well done!
sarah c
Laura
ReplyDeleteAamazing to see that you got the outcomes that you were looking for in your project.
Sex ed is one of does subjects where it is sometimes hard to get infomation out to the Students and somtimes for them to give infomation out.
I agree with you by using Creative environment where multi-accessible learning inventions are in place does benfeit people as you siad by bring other tools can sometimes open people up more to the ideas and feel like they can lean with out just looking at books.
Get project look forward to hearing more baout it
Thanks
Murat