naa a22 4500 510781217 CHVBK 20180411083248.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11422-012-9451-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11422-012-9451-x Urban high school students' perspectives about sexual health decision-making: the role of school culture and identity [Elektronische Daten] [Jennie Brotman, Felicia Mensah] Studies across fields such as science education, health education, health behavior, and curriculum studies identify a persistent gap between the aims of the school curriculum and its impact on students' thinking and acting about the real-life decisions that affect their lives. The present study presents a different story from this predominant pattern in the literature. Through a year-long ethnographic investigation of a health-focused New York City public high school's HIV/AIDS and sex education program, this study illustrates a case in which 20 12th grade students respond positively to their education on these topics and largely assert that school significantly influences their perspectives and actions related to sexual health decision-making. This paper presents the following interpretation of this positive influence: school culture influences these students' perspectives and decisions around sexual health by contributing to the formation of students' identities. This paper further shows how science learning in particular becomes important for students in relation to decision-making when it is linked to issues of identity. These findings suggest that, in addition to attending to the design of classroom curriculum, HIV/AIDS and sex education researchers and curriculum developers (as well as those in science education focusing on other controversial science topics) might also explore the kinds of relational and school-wide factors that potentially influence students' identities, decisions, and responses to school learning. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2012 Decision-making nationallicence Identity nationallicence HIV/AIDS nationallicence Sex education nationallicence Biology nationallicence School culture nationallicence Brotman Jennie Teaching Matters, Inc., New York, NY, USA aut Mensah Felicia Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA aut Cultural Studies of Science Education Springer Netherlands 8/2(2013-06-01), 403-431 1871-1502 8:2<403 2013 8 11422 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-012-9451-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-012-9451-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brotman Jennie Teaching Matters, Inc., New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mensah Felicia Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cultural Studies of Science Education Springer Netherlands 8/2(2013-06-01), 403-431 1871-1502 8:2<403 2013 8 11422 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer