Young People And Sexuality Education

This book explores contemporary issues in sexuality and relationship education for young people. Drawing upon rich empirical and ethnographic research undertaken with students and teachers in secondary schools, the author asks how school-based sexuality education can better equip young people to engage with contemporary social, political and cultural sexuality and relationships issues. Creatively working across both theoretical and practical contexts, this accessible work suggests approaches to sexuality and relationships education that can build upon the ways in which young people are developing a sense of identity; the ultimate aim being to help them to meet their emotional, spiritual and relational potential. Challenging established approaches to sexuality education, this thought-provoking book shines a new light on alternative perspectives that can help make sexuality and relationships education more relevant and meaningful for young people in a rapidly changing world. This volume will be of interest and value to students and scholars of sexuality and relationship education, as well as practitioners.

This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education. Utilising student critiques of programmes it reconfigures key debates in sexuality education including: Should pleasure be part of the curriculum? Who makes the best educators? Do students prefer single or mixed gender classes?

Educating young people about sex and sexuality remains one of the most controversial and political areas of the school curriculum. Drawing on young people's own understandings of their sexual selves, knowledge and practices Sexual Subjects considers the implications for how we conceptualize the effectiveness of sexuality education. Reshaping thinking around youthful (hetero)sexualities Sexual Subjects challenges current approaches to teaching about sex and sexuality.

List of Figures - Acknowledgments - Fida Sanjakdar/Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip: Critical Pedagogy and the Re-imaginings of Sexuality Education: An Introduction - Part 1: Sexuality Education, Ideologies and Socio-cultural Politics - Heather Shipley: Religion, Secularism and Sexuality Education: LGBTQI Identities in Education and the Politics of Ideology in Canada - Eduardo Mattio/Juan Marco Vaggione: Sex Education in Argentina: Ideological Tensions and Critical Challenges - Elsie Whittington/Rachel Thomson: Educating for Consent: Beyond the Binary - Ekua Yankah/Peter Aggleton: Reconceptualising Sexuality Education in the Wake of the HIV, Ebola and Zika Epidemics - Part 2: Sexuality Education and Institutional Settings - Pam Alldred: Sites of Good Practice: How Do Education, Health and Youth Work Spaces Shape Sex Education? - Lisa W. Loutzenheiser/LJ Slovin: Sexuality Education in Action: The Pedagogical Possibilities at a Youth Camp - Fida Sanjakdar/Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip: (Re)presenting Religion in Sexuality Education for a Democratic Society: An Interdisciplinary and Critical Discussion - Kyra Clarke: Nudity, Sexting, and Consent: Finding Opportunities for Critical Pedagogy in Tagged and Caitlin Stasey - Part 3: Sexuality Education, Identities and Practice - Pamela Dickey Young: Informal Sex Education: Forces That Shape Youth Identities and Practices - Mark Vicars: It's a Family Affair-Queering Relations: Closets, Communities and 'I' - Julia Hirst/Rachel Wood/Daisy Marshall: 'Boys Think It's Just a Hairless Hole': Young People's Reflections on Binary and Heteronormative Pedagogies in School Based Sexualities Education - Veronika Honkasalo: 'Waiting for the Big Talk': The Role of Sexuality Education from the View of Parents Living in Multicultural Surroundings - Contributors - Index

This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education. Utilising student critiques of programmes it reconfigures key debates in sexuality education including: Should pleasure be part of the curriculum? Who makes the best educators? Do students prefer single or mixed gender classes?

This authoritative, state-of-the-art Handbook provides an authoritative overview of issues within sexuality education, coupled with ground-breaking discussion of emerging and unconventional insights in the field. With 32 contributions from 12 countries it definitively traces the landscape of issues, theories and practices in sexuality education globally. These rich and multidisciplinary essays are written by renowned critical sexualities studies experts and rising stars in this area and grouped under four main areas: Global Assemblages of Sexuality Education Sexualities Education in Schools Sexual Cultures, Entertainment Media and Communication Technologies Re-animating What Else Sexuality Education Research Can Do, Be and Become Importantly, this Handbook does not equate sexuality education with safer sex education nor understand this subject as confined to school based programmes. Instead, sexuality education is understood more broadly and to occur in spaces as diverse as community settings and entertainment media, and via communication technologies. It is an essential and comprehensive reference resource for academics, students and researchers of sexuality education that both demarcates the field and stimulates critical discussion of its edges. Chapter 2 is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.