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    Die gebruik van Afrikaanse verhalende lektuur ter ondersteuning van die aanbieding van geslags- en gesinsvoorligting in Kaaplandse hoërskole
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1993) Aldrich, Annemarie; Le Roux, J. v. d. V.; Le Roux, M. C.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Department of Information Science.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: One of the developmental tasks underlying the adolescent's growth to maturity, is the determination of sensible sexual attitudes and habits, as well as the ability to express sexual needs in a socially acceptable way. It is widely accepted that sex education plays an important role in this regard, especially in view of the sharp increase in sexual activity and attendant problems among today's youth. In this thesis an investigation was conducted into the representation of the adolescent's sexuality in Afrikaans youth literature, to complement the sex education component in family planning programmes in secondary schools in the Western Cape. The proposed didactic method, namely the use of narrative youth literature in the presentation of family planning programmes is based on the recognition that literature can have therapeutic value for the reader. Firstly, a thesaurus of selected terms was compiled after an analysis of the contents of family planning programmes in schools of the Provincial Administration of the Cape of Good Hope's Department of Education and in schools of the Administration: Council of Representatives' Department of Education and Culture. Themes in youth literature were evaluated against the thesaurus in order to determine their suitability for use in family planning programmes. Forty one Afrikaans stories were subsequently selected after further evaluation against criteria which have to be met by contemporary youth literature. After a survey of schools in the Western Cape, it is concluded that sex education programmes are implemented in only a few schools, and even where such programmes are implemented the content and presentation of the programmes were also found to be inadequate. After attending a number of sex education classes in several schools, it also appears as if reading therapy is not used to a significant extent as a didactic method in family planning and sex education programmes and that pupils are consequently also unable to take advantage of its benefits. A final conclusion is that there is too little Afrikaans youth literature with teenager sexuality as main theme. The vast majority of youth literature present teen sex with its attendant problems, as well as teen relationships with the opposite sex as incidental affairs only.