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The Instruction of Eros: a Content Analysis of Sex Education Texts Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2016 The nsI truction of Eros: A Content Analysis of Sex Education Texts Nicholas Ensley Mitchell Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation Mitchell, Nicholas Ensley, "The nI struction of Eros: A Content Analysis of Sex Education Texts" (2016). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 2316. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/2316 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please [email protected]. THE INTSRUCTION OF EROS: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF SEX EDUCATION TEXTS A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agriculture and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The School of Education by Nicholas Ensley Mitchell B.A., Louisiana State University, 2005 M.A., Louisiana State University, 2007 Ed.S., Louisiana State University, 2015 August 2016 Table of Contents Abstract ........................................................................................................................................... v Chapter 1: Introduction ................................................................................................................... 1 Problem Statement ...................................................................................................................... 2 Purpose of the study .................................................................................................................... 5 Research Questions ..................................................................................................................... 7 Significance of the study ............................................................................................................. 7 Definitions of the major themes .................................................................................................. 8 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................... 9 Chapter 2: Literature Review .......................................................................................................... 11 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 11 Essentialists social constructivists, and Roman Catholic theory ............................................... 12 Essentialism ........................................................................................................................... 13 Social Constructivism ............................................................................................................ 14 Roman Catholicism ............................................................................................................... 16 Emergent Concepts ................................................................................................................ 17 Safety ......................................................................................................................................... 17 The body as an ideological site ................................................................................................. 19 Conceptualization ...................................................................................................................... 22 Performance of identity ............................................................................................................. 25 Race, ethnicity, and adolescence ............................................................................................... 29 Praxis as disruption and as Hegemonic reinforcement ............................................................. 32 Gaps in the literature ................................................................................................................. 38 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................. 40 Chapter 3: Historiography of Sex Education in the United States ................................................ 41 Social Hygiene Movement ........................................................................................................ 42 The Eugenics Movement ........................................................................................................... 49 The Religious Response ............................................................................................................ 55 Post World War 2: Kinsey, the pill, and Rowe vs Wade .......................................................... 60 ii Catholic Theory coalesces ......................................................................................................... 66 The 1970’s ................................................................................................................................. 69 AIDS .......................................................................................................................................... 73 Abstinence only programs and the current make up.................................................................. 76 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................. 79 Chapter 4: Methodology ................................................................................................................ 81 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 81 Research Design ........................................................................................................................ 81 Methodology ............................................................................................................................. 85 Bias ............................................................................................................................................ 92 Reliability and Validity.............................................................................................................. 94 Sample ....................................................................................................................................... 98 Unit of Analysis ....................................................................................................................... 100 Coding Instrument ................................................................................................................... 100 Data Analysis ........................................................................................................................... 100 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................... 101 Chapter 5: Results and Findings…………………………………………………………………103 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 103 Themes, categories and their codes ......................................................................................... 103 Discourses evident in Sex Education Texts ............................................................................. 104 Research Question 2 ................................................................................................................ 119 Research Question 3 ................................................................................................................ 119 Interrater Agreement………………………………………………………………………….120 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................... 120 Chapter 6: Discussion and Conclusion ......................................................................................... 122 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 122 Discussion of Findings and Results ........................................................................................ 122 iii (RQ1) how is information in the comprehensive curriculum and the Catholic curriculum organized? What traditions or approaches are represented? ................................................ 123 Sub-question A) How much of the information is essentialist? .......................................... 127 Sub-question B) How much of the information is intersectionality based? ........................ 128 Sub-question C) How much of the information is personhood based? ............................... 129 Sub-question D) How much of the information is social constructivist? ............................ 133 (RQ2) Do representations of diversity in the curriculum differ between the comprehensive curriculum and the Catholic curriculum? If they do what intersections of difference (race, gender, ability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.) are represented? ...................................
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