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Exploring Contemporary Issues in Sexuality Education with Young People

Theories in Practice

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Authors:
  1. Kathleen Quinlivan

    1. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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  • Questions how sexuality education can help young people to engage with important issues
  • Offers approaches to sexuality and relationships education that can help young people to meet their full potential
  • Highlights alternative perspective that can make sexuality and relationships education more relevant and meaningful

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education (GED)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction: Contemporary Issues in Sexuality and Relationships Education with Young People: Theories in Practice

    • Kathleen Quinlivan
    Pages 1-33

  3. Chapter 1: Queerly Affective Failure as a Site of Pedagogical Possibility in the Sexuality Education Classroom

    • Kathleen Quinlivan
    Pages 35-66

  4. Chapter 2: “An Epidemic of Love”: Drawing on Students’ Lived Experiences of Challenging Hetero and Gender Normalcy to Engage with Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Classroom

    • Kathleen Quinlivan
    Pages 67-86

  5. Chapter 3: Engaging with the Politics of Porn: Coming in ‘Slantwise’ with Contemporary Art in the Sexuality Education Classroom

    • Kathleen Quinlivan
    Pages 87-112

  6. Chapter 4: Reconfiguring Sexuality Education as an Assemblage: Exploring Affective Becomings in a Research ‘Classroom’

    • Kathleen Quinlivan
    Pages 113-142

  7. Chapter 5: The Art of the Possible: Reconceptualising Sexuality Education as Rhizomatic Experimentation

    • Kathleen Quinlivan
    Pages 143-175

  8. Afterword: Engaging with Theories in Practice in the Sexuality and Relationships Education Classroom – Some Ways Forward

    • Kathleen Quinlivan
    Pages 177-184

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 185-189
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About this book

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 volumewill be of interest and value to students and scholars of sexuality and relationship education, as well as practitioners.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Kathleen Quinlivan

About the author

Kathleen Quinlivan is Associate Professor in the College of Education, Health and Human Development at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Her research interests include sexuality education and conditions of transformational learning for young people, and she has published widely on these topics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Exploring Contemporary Issues in Sexuality Education with Young People

  • Book Subtitle: Theories in Practice

  • Authors: Kathleen Quinlivan

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50105-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50104-2Published: 26 October 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50105-9Published: 12 October 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2524-6445

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-6453

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 189

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Gender and Education, Gender and Sexuality, Schools and Schooling, Learning & Instruction

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