ABSTRACT 

This research is concerned with teachers and students attitude towards the teaching of sex education in secondary schools in Enugu education zone of Enugu state.

This study was conducted in three local government areas that made up the zone. They are Enugu North, Enugu East, and Isi-Uzo. The zone is made up of thirty four (34) secondary schools, out of which ten were randomly sampled and used for this research work. The instrument used to obtain information was questionnaire items drawn from four research questions. The researchers constructed twenty item questionnaires which were arranged on modified likert scale, strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree. The researchers made some recommendations and one of the recommendations is that sex education should be made compulsory to all secondary school and the subject family life taught in school should be replaced with sex education.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title page

Approval page

Certification page

Dedication page

Acknowledgement

Abstract

Table of contents 

CHAPTER ONE

Introduction 

Background of the study

Statement of the problem 

Purpose of the study

Significance of the study

Scope of the study

Research question

CHAPTER TWO 

Review of related literature 

Sex education and its objectives

Sex issues and cultural belief 

Strategies for effective sex education 

Benefits of effective sex education 

Who teaches sex education 

CHAPTER THREE 

Research method

Research design 

Area of the study 

Population of the study

Sample and sampling techniques 

Instrument for data collection

Validation of the instrument 

Reliability of the instrument 

Method of data collection

Method of data analysis

CHAPTER FOUR 

Presentation and analysis of data 

Research question 1

Research question 2 

Research question 3 

Research question 4 

CHAPTER FIVE 

Discussion of result 

Educational implication of the study

Suggestion for further work

Conclusion 

Recommendation 

References 

APPENDIX 1

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