So although the class-portion of the semester is over, I still have another 4 days until my last two projects are due. I have to create two libguides, a convenient grouping of various types of sources on a particular topic. I am doing one on Medieval Adolescence and one on Sexual Education. It's the latter I'd love your feedback on. It's being targeted to high school students and teachers.
For the students, I am specifically targeting those who are receiving no sex ed classes. Over the course of 13 years of Catholic school education, I had 8 different sex ed courses, ranging from 6th grade PE class to 1oth grade Theology to 12th grade Anatomy. I cannot believe that public schools, those unholy, gum-chewing institutions of heathens, can't do at least that much! Honestly, I sort of thought that to be less conservative than we were, they'd have to show porn.
For teachers, I am targeting those teaching health, science, or current event courses.
The source types I need to provide both groups are core databases, key journals, key data sources, print reference sources, key subject headings for catalog searches, and important websites.
Regarding important websites, I so far have Go Ask Alice and WebMD. I've just started that portion of the search, so I'll be finding many more of the obvious ones.
Do you guys have any feedback on less obvious sites? They should have a solid scientific source behind them. Or any thoughts on the other source types?
3 comments:
Re: Adolescence - "Give me the child until the age of seven, and I will give you the man," --Ignatius Loyola (unsourced)
The idea of a discreet period between childhood and adulthood which is anything other than a creation of the society around the person so described seems ridiculous. Medieval people certainly thought so...
Ignatius was pretty much the VERY end of the medieval period, definitely straddling the Reformation. I'll counter-quote you:
“The world is passing through troublesome times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes as wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are foolish and immodest, and unwomanly in speech, behavior and dress.” Peter the Monk, 1274
Wow! 8 sex ed classes! I didn't get ANYTHING in PE ever! We did have a speaker come to our kindergarten class and teach us the official parts of the body, but that was it. Then, not a lick of it until high school religion classes. Anatomy glossed over sex ed and biology only showed the Miracle of life, I had to watch a total of 3 times in high school.
Ew.
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