Exploring Pathways for Integrating Sex Education into High School Biology and Its Practical Significance
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This paper explores the necessity, theoretical foundations, and practical pathways for integrating sex education into the high school biology curriculum. By analyzing the current state of sex education domestically and internationally, the modules on sexual knowledge within the biology curriculum, and the healthy development needs of adolescents, it proposes interdisciplinary teaching strategies and evaluates their positive impact on students' scientific literacy, development of healthy behaviors, and enhancement of social adaptability. The study argues that biology, as a natural vehicle for sex education, can promote the realization of comprehensive sexuality education for adolescents in a scientific and desensitized manner.
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