Teaching and learning sexuality in nursing education

Sexuality is recognized as part of holistic nursing care, but its inclusion in clinical practice and nursing training is inconsistent. Based on the question "How students and teachers acknowledge sexuality in teaching and learning?", we developed a study in order to characterize the process of teaching and learning sexuality in a micro perspective of curriculum development. We used a mixed methods design with a sequential strategy: QUAN-qual of descriptive and explanatory type. 646 students and teachers participated. The quantitative component used questionnaire surveys. Document analysis was used in the additional component. A curricular dimension of sexuality emerges guided by a behaviourist line and based on a biological vision. The issues considered sage are highlighted and framed in steps of adolescence and adulthood and more attacghed to female sexuality and procreative aspect. There is in emeergence a hidden curriculum by reference to content from other dimensions of sexuality but less often expressed. Theoretical learning follows a communicational model of reality through abstraction strategies, which infers a deductive method of learning, with a behaviourist approach to assessment. Clinical teaching adresses sexuality in combination with reproductive lealth nursing. The influencing factors of teaching and learning of sexuality were also explored. We conclude that the vision of female sexuality taught and learned in relation to women has a projection of care in clinical practice based on the same principles

Manual de la comunicación inclusiva

El Manual de la Comunicación Inclusiva es una guía para generar mensajes éticos acerca de las personas que tradicionalmente son consideradas “minorías” en Costa Rica. Pretende dar recomendaciones al momento de escribir o difundir mensajes audiovisuales sobre la gente con discapacidad, la infancia, las personas afrodescendientes, los hombres homosexuales, las mujeres lesbianas, las personas indígenas o migrantes, entre otros. Es un trabajo colectivo del curso semestral “Comunicación inclusiva” que se impartió en la Escuela de Ciencias de la Comunicación Colectiva de la Universidad de Costa Rica durante los años 2007 y 2008. La población estudiantil colaboró en su redacción. Las diferentes organizaciones de la sociedad civil también aportaron ideas. Además, estas organizaciones capacitaron semanalmente al estudiantado en cada uno de sus temas de interés. El trabajo de compilación y edición estuvo a cargo del profesor del curso. El Manual de la comunicación inclusiva aspira a que toda persona emisora de un mensaje, reflexione sobre la forma y el contenido antes de emitirlo con el fin de lograr un producto comunicacional, que aliente el respeto y la inclusión de todas las personas dentro de una sociedad, que aún no logra superar todas las manifestaciones de discriminación. The Inclusive Communication Manual is a guide that allows us generate ethical messages about people or groups of people who are traditionally considered in Costa Rica as “minorities”. It Intends to provide recommendations for the autho messages that has to do with people who have certain disability or about childhood, African American people, homosexual men, lesbian women, group of natives and migrants among others.  It’s a collective work from the “Inclusive Communication” course that took place at the “Collective Communication School of Costa Rica’s University” during the year of 2007 and 2008. The students collaborated in its redaction as well as different other organizations of the civil society who provided ideas. Also, these organizations trained the students on a weekly basis on each and everyone of the subjects in study. The work of compiling information and its editing was done by the professor of the course.The Manual of Inclusive Communication intends to make the person who sends a message, think about the message, its content and form, before sending the message in order to accomplish a communicational product that will reinforce the respect and the inclusion of every single person within a society which even nowadays it can’t overcome the different manifestations of discrimination.