Sexuality and the Curriculum

Sexuality and the Curriculum
Author: James Thomas Sears
Publisher:
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1992
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780807731529

Sexuality and the Curriculum brings together curriculum scholars and developers with sexuality educators and sex equity specialists to explore the explicit and hidden curriculum of sexuality from kindergarten through college. This collection of 15 interrelated essays challenges conventional assumptions regarding sexuality and the curriculum while proposing specific curricular strategies and alternatives. Contributors include Mariamne Whatley, Tony Whitson, Michelle Fine, Eleanor Linn, Louise Berman, Sue Klein, Patricia Koch, Charol Shakeshaft, Bonnie Trudell, and Jonathan Silin. Though the authors do not represent a singular theoretical voice, the book challenges conventional sexual discourse and curriculum design by applying nontraditional perspectives to traditionally unresolved problems. Among the book's points are its multicultural emphasis and its integration of curriculum theory into sexuality education practice.

Sexuality for All Abilities

Sexuality for All Abilities
Author: Katie Thune
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2020-06-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000081796

This essential manual helps educators comfortably and knowledgeably bring comprehensive sex education to the special education classroom. Drawing on firsthand experience and real-world examples, the first half provides background material—including common roadblocks—and tools for how to effectively partner with parents. The second half breaks down the how-tos of implementing a successful sex education program and troubleshoots tricky situations that might come up in the special education classroom. Written in accessible, person-first language, this guide equips you with best practices for providing students with developmental disabilities with the knowledge and tools to engage in healthy relationships and live full lives as self-advocating sexual beings.

The Sexuality Curriculum and Youth Culture

The Sexuality Curriculum and Youth Culture
Author: Dennis Carlson
Publisher: Counterpoints
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Critical pedagogy
ISBN: 9781433110009

The book aims to change the conversation about sexuality education for adolescents, making it consistent with a democratic cultural politics that is attuned to changes in youth and popular culture. Traditional sex education is nearly obsolete; sexuality curriculum is now primarily learned through popular culture and youth culture, which teach young people what it means to be a man and a woman, gay and straight, white, black, and Latino, rich and poor - and what sexuality has to do with it. Ultimately, this book conceptualizes democratic sexuality education as a commitment to the idea that sexuality education should affirm the right of all young people to construct their own sexual selves and relations as much as possible, so long as they are non-exploitive, consensual, and informed.

Sexuality and Relationship Education for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Sexuality and Relationship Education for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Author: Davida Hartman
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-10-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0857007556

Children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) require specialized teaching strategies when learning about puberty, sexuality and relationships. This professional resource offers practical teaching advice geared towards the needs of young people on the autism spectrum. Beginning with information on good practice, policy, teaching methods and recent research, the book then divides into key sex education topics that assist professionals in developing their own individualized and developmentally appropriate curricula. Covering issues of gender, public and private, puberty, hygiene, emotions, sex and more, each topic provides an overview of the difficulties that children with autism might experience, discussion and activity ideas and photocopiable resources including instructional stories, checklists and illustrations. The final section demonstrates how to respond to ongoing patterns of inappropriate behaviour and put together a behaviour plan. Aiming to explain and support the child's developing sexuality while also addressing crucial issues of safety, this book is a much-needed teaching manual for all professionals working with children and young adults with autism including educators in mainstream and special education, psychologists, therapists and social workers.

Risky Lessons

Risky Lessons
Author: Jessica Fields
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2008-06-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813544998

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.

Pedagogies of Possibility for Negotiating Sexuality Education with Young People

Pedagogies of Possibility for Negotiating Sexuality Education with Young People
Author: Debbie Ollis
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2022-02-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1787697452

Pedagogies of Possibility for Negotiating Sexuality Education with Young People offers a sustained and critical consideration of the possibilities and politics of engaging with young people in the redevelopment and delivery of contemporary approaches to Sexuality Education.

Sexuality Education

Sexuality Education
Author: Clint E. Bruess
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780763747596

Sexuality Education: Theory and Practice, Fourth Edition is designed to prepare future sexuality educators and administrators, as well as seasoned teachers about sexuality and also aims to clarify the false assumptions related to sexuality education. This one-of-a-kind resource provides comprehensive coverage of information and issues related to sexuality education and the skills needed to prepare sexuality educators.

Sexual Subjects

Sexual Subjects
Author: L. Allen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2005-09-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230500986

Educating young people about sex and sexuality remains one of the most controversial and political areas of the school curriculum. Drawing on young people's own understandings of their sexual selves, knowledge and practices Sexual Subjects considers the implications for how we conceptualize the effectiveness of sexuality education. Reshaping thinking around youthful (hetero)sexualities Sexual Subjects challenges current approaches to teaching about sex and sexuality.

Sexuality Matters

Sexuality Matters
Author: James W. Koschoreck
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2009-10-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607094185

Sexuality Matters brings together scholars from a variety of epistemological perspectives to explore the multiple ways in which sexuality does indeed matter in the arena of public education. This book is arranged into three main thematic areas: Policy and Activism, Curriculum and Pedagogy, and Identity and Lived Experiences, each of which explores specific ideas and challenges found within the corresponding topic. The special features of this collection include a focus on the implications of sexuality for educational leadership as well as a multi-perspectival approach to the exploration of these concerns. This text will prove to be especially useful both to scholars who prepare future educational leaders and to practitioners who are seeking ways to deal with the complex social realities of their communities.