Taboo Topics and Sexual Education in Indian Schools
Anubha Ray, Manas Kumar Pal · Advances in linguistics and communication studies · 2022
Although India faces problems of the very high rate of population growth, sexual abuse, rape, teen pregnancy, even a high rate of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV, Indian schools are not yet ready to deliver on the topic to sensitize the young minds. There is no study on whether teachers are imparting this education and most importantly how they are communicating with the young individuals in the classroom. The chapter seeks to find how the taboo topics are discussed in the class and the communication strategies adopted by the teachers. For the study, teachers have been considered as respondents to examine their communication-related challenges and the strategies while communicating with the adolescent student. The study concludes that due to lack of any training, teachers do not know what and how to deliver the topics under sexuality education.