DOCUMENT RESUME ED 473 601 CE 084 536 AUTHOR King, Linda, Ed. TITLE Questions of Intimacy: Rethinking Population Education. INSTITUTION United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. ISBN ISBN-92-820-1095-3 PUB DATE 1999-00-00 NOTE 204p.; Book is based on an international expert group meeting held December 1998 in Havana, Cuba. Funding provided by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA-Canada). AVAILABLE FROM Bernan Associates, 4611-F Assembly Dr., Lanham, MD 20706-4391 (Order no. U0951, $25). Tel: 800-274-4888 (Toll Free); Fax: 800-865-3450 (Toll Free); e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.bernan.com/. PUB TYPE Books (010) Collected Works General (020) Opinion Papers (120) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF01/PC09 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Adolescents; Adult Education; Aging (Individuals); Birth Rate; Cancer; Change Strategies; Contraception; Cultural Differences; Daughters; Definitions; Developed Nations; Developing Nations; Educational Change; Educational Objectives; *Educational Policy; *Educational Practices; Educational Strategies; Empowerment; Family Planning; Females; Foreign Countries; Health Education; Information Dissemination; Innovation; Males; Masculinity; Mothers; *Nongovernmental Organizations; Organizational Effectiveness; Organizational Objectives; Outreach Programs; Parent Child Relationship; *Policy Formation; *Population Education; Public Policy; Reproduction (Biology); Risk; Role of Education; Rural Areas; Rural Education; Sex Differences; Sex Education; *Womens Education ABSTRACT' This document contains 14 papers that examine recent changes in the definition, principles, and delivery of population education throughout the world. The paper titles are as follows: "Introduction" (Linda King); "Reaching Men for Health and Development" (Benno de Keijzer); "Boys, Men and Questions of Masculinity in South Africa" (Robert Morrell); "Educating Men to Participate in Reproductive Health. Programmes" (Imtiaz Kamal); "Cultural Aspects of Reproductive Health Education in the Arab World" (Toufic Osseiran); "The Adolescent in Today's World: Considerations of Sexual and Reproductive Health" (Cristina Fuentes Zurita, Clara Ines Charry Sanchez); "Information Provided by Rural Mothers to Their Daughters Concerning Reproductive Health" (Chanya Sethaput, Pimonpan Isarabhakd); "Ageing in Cuba" (Raul Hernandez Castellon); "The Effect of Fertility in China" (Xu Mingdong); "Adult Education and Population in Ghana: Strategies for Empowering the Ghanaian Woman" (Miranda Greenstreet); "Gender and Health Education: The Incidence of Cervical Cancer in Jamaica" (Patricia Rodney); "Reproductive Health, Education, and Risk in Cuban Society" (Alina C. Alfonso Leon); "Sex Education in Cuba: Recent Initiatives" (Maria Antonia Torres); "The Role of Adult Education in Population Issues in Zimbabwe" (Mercy Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Hatendi); and "One Night in Bangkok" (Wilas Lohitkul). Severalpapers include substantial bibliographies. (MN) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. .. .../.44' ..x-Jr, 41r 4,77, U -S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy PERMISSIONTO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THISMATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTEDBY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) 1 (111111=11r------ 2 Questions of Intimacy Rethinking Population Education Linda King (ed.) UNESCO Institute for Education (UIE) 3 The UNESCO Institutefor Education, Hamburg,isa legally independent entity. 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Hamburg, Germany Cover design: Natalia Jardon Acknowledgements This book is basedon some of the papers presented at the international expert group meetingon population issues and adult education held in December, 1998 in Havana,Cuba. Without the support of the major funders, UNFPA and CIDA-Canada,the meeting could not have been held. We thankthem for their confidence in the work of the UNESCO Institutefor Education. We would also like to thank the Director andstaff of the UNESCO representative office in Cuba for theirsupport to the seminar. Several participants in the seminarare not mentioned in the publication but were crucial to itssuccess. Leslie Pascoe provided endless hours of perfect translation andgoodwill, Sandra Aliaga was a resource person as was Benno de Keijzer. CristinaGrela, Elena Martinez Canals, Maria Teresa DiazAlvarez and Mercedes Fabros also participated with key presentationswhich helped shape the discussion throughout. With regard to the publication itself,as any editor knows, books are not always simpleoutcomes of seminars. Angela Ronai helped with the technical editing ofsome of the papers while Sonja Schiman completed the time-consumingand meticulous task of incorporating the corrections and formatting thefinal version. Linda King Preface In development policy, themost difficult process of revision and yet the most influential, is the shift of paradigms.To undertake such a renewal of perspectives, ina domain where policies touch on intimate areas of life and where the grand narrativesembedded in other contexts do not oftenconnect with the present risk faced by women andmen of today, is even more delicate and difficult. This book, produced under the intellectualleadership of Linda King, fulfils this task remarkably andin many differentways: extending at last the gender questionto men as well as women, daring to re-link reproductive healthto the broad reality of sexuality, revising the predominant linearmode of communication in health promotion in favour ofa practice of dialogue acknowledging the subjectivity of theprocesses involved, and, above all, relyingon the creative participation of men andwomen. It is so refreshing, in this domain,to read authors who have refused to restrict the population issue toa demographic explosion and population education to the strict adoptionof the "best" behaviour. This change of paradigm here isnot an academic exercise. It comes out of hard confrontation with reality and ittransforms practices and policies. Behind thisepistemological shift lies the hope for millions ofwomen and men to become free of violence, to have space for reproductive choice,to prevent severe sickness, to enjoy creative ageing, to live with dignity. As we say in my country of origin,this book is "fun". This publication about population dealsnot with problems but with people; it respects them; it recognizestheir various cultures; it looks at their differentways to learn throughout life and to transform reality. It also invitesmen to engage into a long awaited dialogue among themselves and withwomen on masculinities, feminities and sexual stereotypes. I, forone, take up the invitation. Paul Belanger Director LAE Table of Contents Page Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Redefining Population Education Linda King 1 Part I: Men, Masculinities and Health Chapter 1: Reaching Men for Health and Development Benno de Keijzer 21 Chapter 2: Boys, Men and Questions of Masculinityin South Africa Robert Morrell 31 Chapter 3: Educating Men to Participate in ReproductiveHealth Programmes Imtiaz Kamal 61 Chapter 4: Cultural Aspects of Reproductive HealthEducation in the Arab World Toufic Osseiran 73 Part II: The Life Cycle Approach toPopulation Education Chapter 5: The Adolescent in Today's World:Considerations of Sexual and Reproductive Health Christina Fuentes Zurita & Clara InesSanchez 89 Chapter 6: Information Provided by Rural Mothersto their Daughters Concerning Reproductive Health Pimonpan Isarabhakdi & Chanya Sethaput 101 Chapter 7: Ageing in Cuba Ratil Hernandez Castellon 117 Part III: Policy Making For Population Education Chapter 8: The Effect of Education on Fertility in China Xu Mindong 133 Chapter 9: Adult Education and Population in Ghana: Strategies for Empowering the Ghanaian Woman Miranda Greenstreet 143 Chapter 10: Gender and Health Education: Cancer in Jamaica Patricia Rodney 155 Chapter 11: Reproductive Health, Education and Risk in Cuban Society Alina C. Alfonso Leon 165 Chapter 12: Sex Education in Cuba: Recent Initiatives Maria Antonia Torres 175 Part IV: The Role of NGOs Chapter 13: The Role of Adult Education in Population Issues in Zimbabwe Mercy Hatendi 185 Chapter 14: One Night in Bangkok: Innovative Approaches to