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2.8 A role for peer education in RSE?
While, with certain conditions, peer education in RSE might be feasible, it must also be asked to what extent it is necessary. RSS has developed a number of road safety programmes and resources for secondary school pupils in Scotland. However, research conduced in 2002 27 found that very little RSE was being taught in S3 to S6 in Scottish secondary schools. The main reason for this was that RSE was not considered appropriate, either by teachers or their pupils, for upper secondary school. "Road safety" carried with it connotations of primary school and of learning rules by rote. In addition, lack of teaching time and lack of good resources were seen as additional problems. If RSE is seen as inappropriate in a formal teaching context, there might there be a potential for peer education to make it more appropriate. Chapter 3 below addresses this possibility.
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