Building on research of attitudes about the introduction of parents and teachers, special educators and professional services that we conducted in 2019 and 2020, the latest research on teachers’ attitudes for the introduction of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in primary education provides insight in what changes occurred among teachers after the implementation of the pilot programme for comprehensive sexuality education, as well as after the numerous debates for and against the introduction of such an optional subject, which were continuously taking place with varying intensity in the public, especially on social media.
The most general conclusion stemming from this research is that among the teachers and employees of professional services in primary schools, there is a dominating affirmative attitude about the need to introduce formal teaching on sexuality education, as well as that in the period since the beginning of the formalization of the idea, until the moment of completion of the pilot-project, there is only slight decline of support.
While the small percentage of overall support decline can largely be attributed to the negative propaganda, which in certain periods after addressing the Concept for Primary Education was inflated to the level of demonizing the idea itself, yet we would underline that a significant part of the included teachers (1652 in total) would like to be involved in training for teaching these contents because they consider that the information, attitudes and skills that the pupils would acquire through this curriculum are extremely important and relevant.
According to them, the obstacles to successful implementation of the programme lie mostly in factors outside the school, that is, in the unwillingness of the community or parents to accept systematic education of teenagers in the sphere of sexuality.
The research is available in Macedonian and in Albanian language.
