Exploring Contemporary Issues in Sexuality Education with Young People: Theories in Practice

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Introduction: Contemporary Issues in Sexuality and Relationships Education with Young People: Theories in Practice (Kathleen Quinlivan)....Pages 1-33 Chapter 1: Queerly Affective Failure as a Site of Pedagogical Possibility in the Sexuality Education Classroom (Kathleen Quinlivan)....Pages 35-66 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 Chapter 3: Engaging with the Politics of Porn: Coming in ‘Slantwise’ with Contemporary Art in the Sexuality Education Classroom (Kathleen Quinlivan)....Pages 87-112 Chapter 4: Reconfiguring Sexuality Education as an Assemblage: Exploring Affective Becomings in a Research ‘Classroom’ (Kathleen Quinlivan)....Pages 113-142 Chapter 5: The Art of the Possible: Reconceptualising Sexuality Education as Rhizomatic Experimentation (Kathleen Quinlivan)....Pages 143-175 Afterword: Engaging with Theories in Practice in the Sexuality and Relationships Education Classroom – Some Ways Forward (Kathleen Quinlivan)....Pages 177-184 Back Matter ....Pages 185-189