Higher Secondary School Teachers’ Attitude Towards the Implementation of Sex Education at Higher Secondary Level in Murshidabad District of West Bengal, India

In this study an attempt has been made to study the attitude of the higher secondary school teachers towards the implementation of sex education at higher secondary level in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, India. For this purpose, 380 higher secondary school teachers were randomly selected and attitude towards the implementation of sex education scale administered to them. To study the significance of difference between the various groups, ‘t’ test was applied by the researcher. The overall results indicate that the higher secondary school teachers (both urban and rural) possess highly favourable attitude towards the implementation of sex education. And there is no significance difference in the attitude of higher secondary school teacher towards the implementation of sex education in relation to their gender (i.e. male and female), locality (i.e. rural and urban) and stream (i.e., arts, science and commerce).