In search of critical pedagogy in sexuality education: visions, imaginations, and paradoxes
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Article Title | In search of critical pedagogy in sexuality education: visions, imaginations, and paradoxes |
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ERA Journal ID | 34805 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Sanjakdar, Fida (Author), Allen, Louisa (Author), Rasmussen, Mary Lou (Author), Quinlivan, Kathleen (Author), Bromdal, Annette (Author) and Aspin, Clive (Author) |
Journal Title | Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies |
The Review of Education - Pedagogy - Cultural Studies | |
Journal Citation | 37 (1), pp. 53-70 |
Number of Pages | 18 |
Year | 2015 |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 1071-4413 |
1556-3022 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2015.988537 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10714413.2015.988537 |
Abstract | This article is about the purposes and the processes of teaching comprehensive sexuality education to diverse communities. We argue that establishing an educational response to addressing diversity in sexuality education involves challenging and interrupting current dominant forms of authority, subordination, and systems of hegemony prevalent in the teaching practices of this subject. We argue that critical pedagogy (influenced by the Frankfurt school of thought and developed by Freire 1974, 1973; Giroux 1988, 2003; and Kincheloe 2004) is a vehicle to explore and expand existing teaching pedagogies and cultural investments in sexuality education, as well as a way to contribute toward more effective teaching and student learning in this subject area. The turn to critical pedagogy in this article is an acknowledgement that the dilemmas of the secondary classroom and the questions of what becomes of sexual knowledge in that space are too big to ignore. Conservative pedagogies still reign in school-based sexuality education. Educational standards in this subject area are still strictly associated with risk knowledge (McWilliams 1996) and normative ideals of sex, sexuality, and gender are pervasive in the teaching practices of this subject (Allen 2007; Rasmussen 2006). |
Keywords | sex education; sexuality; education; critical pedagogy |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390102. Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development |
390406. Gender, sexuality and education | |
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Byline Affiliations | Monash University |
University of Auckland, New Zealand | |
University of Canterbury, New Zealand | |
School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education | |
University of Sydney | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Funding source | Australian Research Council (ARC) |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q33v5/in-search-of-critical-pedagogy-in-sexuality-education-visions-imaginations-and-paradoxes
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