Author: Nancy Kendall
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226922278
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Educating children and adolescents in public schools about sex is a deeply inflammatory act in the United States. Since the 1980s, intense political and cultural battles have been waged between believers in abstinence until marriage and advocates for comprehensive sex education. In The Sex Education Debates, Nancy Kendall upends conventional thinking about these battles by bringing the school and community realities of sex education to life through the diverse voices of students, teachers, administrators, and activists. Drawing on ethnographic research in five states, Kendall reveals important differences and surprising commonalities shared by purported antagonists in the sex education wars, and she illuminates the unintended consequences these protracted battles have, especially on teachers and students. Showing that the lessons that most students, teachers, and parents take away from these battles are antithetical to the long-term health of American democracy, she argues for shifting the measure of sex education success away from pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection rates. Instead, she argues, the debates should focus on a broader set of social and democratic consequences, such as what students learn about themselves as sexual beings and civic actors, and how sex education programming affects school-community relations.
The Sex Education Debates
Author: Nancy Kendall
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226922278
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Educating children and adolescents in public schools about sex is a deeply inflammatory act in the United States. Since the 1980s, intense political and cultural battles have been waged between believers in abstinence until marriage and advocates for comprehensive sex education. In The Sex Education Debates, Nancy Kendall upends conventional thinking about these battles by bringing the school and community realities of sex education to life through the diverse voices of students, teachers, administrators, and activists. Drawing on ethnographic research in five states, Kendall reveals important differences and surprising commonalities shared by purported antagonists in the sex education wars, and she illuminates the unintended consequences these protracted battles have, especially on teachers and students. Showing that the lessons that most students, teachers, and parents take away from these battles are antithetical to the long-term health of American democracy, she argues for shifting the measure of sex education success away from pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection rates. Instead, she argues, the debates should focus on a broader set of social and democratic consequences, such as what students learn about themselves as sexual beings and civic actors, and how sex education programming affects school-community relations.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226922278
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Educating children and adolescents in public schools about sex is a deeply inflammatory act in the United States. Since the 1980s, intense political and cultural battles have been waged between believers in abstinence until marriage and advocates for comprehensive sex education. In The Sex Education Debates, Nancy Kendall upends conventional thinking about these battles by bringing the school and community realities of sex education to life through the diverse voices of students, teachers, administrators, and activists. Drawing on ethnographic research in five states, Kendall reveals important differences and surprising commonalities shared by purported antagonists in the sex education wars, and she illuminates the unintended consequences these protracted battles have, especially on teachers and students. Showing that the lessons that most students, teachers, and parents take away from these battles are antithetical to the long-term health of American democracy, she argues for shifting the measure of sex education success away from pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection rates. Instead, she argues, the debates should focus on a broader set of social and democratic consequences, such as what students learn about themselves as sexual beings and civic actors, and how sex education programming affects school-community relations.
Risky Lessons
Author: Jessica Fields
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813544998
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Curricula in U.S. public schools are often the focus of heated debate, and few subjects spark more controversy than sex education. While conservatives argue that sexual abstinence should be the only message, liberals counter that an approach that provides comprehensive instruction and helps young people avoid sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy is necessary. Caught in the middle are the students and teachers whose everyday experiences of sex education are seldom as clear-cut as either side of the debate suggests. Risky Lessons brings readers inside three North Carolina middle schools to show how students and teachers support and subvert the official curriculum through their questions, choices, viewpoints, and reactions. Most important, the book highlights how sex education's formal and informal lessons reflect and reinforce gender, race, and class inequalities. Ultimately critical of both conservative and liberal approaches, Fields argues for curricula that promote social and sexual justice. Sex education's aim need not be limited to reducing the risk of adolescent pregnancies, disease, and sexual activity. Rather, its lessons should help young people to recognize and contend with sexual desires, power, and inequalities.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813544998
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Curricula in U.S. public schools are often the focus of heated debate, and few subjects spark more controversy than sex education. While conservatives argue that sexual abstinence should be the only message, liberals counter that an approach that provides comprehensive instruction and helps young people avoid sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy is necessary. Caught in the middle are the students and teachers whose everyday experiences of sex education are seldom as clear-cut as either side of the debate suggests. Risky Lessons brings readers inside three North Carolina middle schools to show how students and teachers support and subvert the official curriculum through their questions, choices, viewpoints, and reactions. Most important, the book highlights how sex education's formal and informal lessons reflect and reinforce gender, race, and class inequalities. Ultimately critical of both conservative and liberal approaches, Fields argues for curricula that promote social and sexual justice. Sex education's aim need not be limited to reducing the risk of adolescent pregnancies, disease, and sexual activity. Rather, its lessons should help young people to recognize and contend with sexual desires, power, and inequalities.
Talk about Sex
Author: Janice M. Irvine
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520243293
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Describes the political transformations, cultural dynamics, and affective rhetorics that together helped ignite the passionate conflicts over sex education on both the national and local levels in the United States.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520243293
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Describes the political transformations, cultural dynamics, and affective rhetorics that together helped ignite the passionate conflicts over sex education on both the national and local levels in the United States.
Sex Education in Schools
Author: Kekla Magoon
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781604535365
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Examines the issue of sex education in schools.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781604535365
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Examines the issue of sex education in schools.
Sex Education
Author: Kristen Bailey
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780737724196
Category : Sex instruction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Most Americans agree that today's teenagers need some kind of sexuality education. But how the subject should be taught is a matter that can cause heated disagreements. This anthology debates the views of those adults who think students should be taught that abstinence is the only option where sex is concerned as well as those who think teenagers need to be taught a more comprehensive sex education curriculum.
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780737724196
Category : Sex instruction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Most Americans agree that today's teenagers need some kind of sexuality education. But how the subject should be taught is a matter that can cause heated disagreements. This anthology debates the views of those adults who think students should be taught that abstinence is the only option where sex is concerned as well as those who think teenagers need to be taught a more comprehensive sex education curriculum.
Young People and Sexuality Education
Author: L. Allen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230297633
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
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?
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230297633
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
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?
Exploring Contemporary Issues in Sexuality Education with Young People
Author: Kathleen Quinlivan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137501057
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137501057
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
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.
Sex Education
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sex instruction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Presents opposing viewpoints on various issues in the debate over sex education including questions of whether schools or parents should be more responsible for it, its role in teen pregnancy, and the effectiveness of teaching abstinence.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sex instruction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Presents opposing viewpoints on various issues in the debate over sex education including questions of whether schools or parents should be more responsible for it, its role in teen pregnancy, and the effectiveness of teaching abstinence.
The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education
Author: Louisa Allen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137400331
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137400331
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
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.
Global Perspectives and Key Debates in Sex and Relationships Education
Author: V. Sundaram
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137500220
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
There is a great variety of sex and relationship education in the global North and South and this book draws together the global perspectives and debates on this key topic. Issues including gender-based violence, pornography, sexual consent, sexual diversity and religious plurality are all discussed with reference to cutting-edge research.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137500220
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
There is a great variety of sex and relationship education in the global North and South and this book draws together the global perspectives and debates on this key topic. Issues including gender-based violence, pornography, sexual consent, sexual diversity and religious plurality are all discussed with reference to cutting-edge research.