Joanne Winckle

Sex education

Discourses of sex, sexuality and gender in the classroom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book recounts a feminist poststructural and critical ethnographic investigation of the production of knowledge and gendered subjectivities within a single Tasmanian secondary co-educational government school. The main focus of the investigation was on how power operated through dominant pedagogical practices to constitute particular versions of sexuality as the truth, and to what effect (Foucault 1980). The investigation examined teacher and student dominant discourses of knowledge regarding sex, sexuality and sexual decision-making and the impact they had upon students production of gendered subjectivity. It also examined the sex education program s potential for addressing issues of sexual violence, homophobia and sexual health. This book argues that current pedagogies within sex education classes reproduce binary versions of gender, which are inequitable and significantly limiting in terms of transforming homophobic, sexist and discriminatory attitude. This book offers analternative model of sex education based on a critical pedagogical approach that focuses on the concept of sexual ethics and the potential for pedagogies to become catalysts for change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9783847312789
• ISBN-10: 3847312782
• Artikelnr.: 34692930

Autorenporträt

Jo Winckle lives on the beautiful island state of Tasmania, Australia where she trained as a teacher and completed her PhD in sexuality and health education. She practices across education, sexual and reproductive health care and sexual assault counselling sectors, where issues of gender, power and sexuality are at the centre of her work.