Young people and sexuality education
Subtitle: rethinking key debates
By: Louisa Allen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780230579439
Subjects: Sex instruction for youth
Description: "This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education. Utilizing student critiques of programs 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?"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Doing 'it': researching sexuality; title: 'They think you shouldnt be having sex anyway': young people;s critique of sexuality education content; title: Men are from Mars and aomen are from Venus?: re-thinking gender differences in sexuality education content; title: 'Pleasurable pedagogy': young people's thoughts about including 'Pleasure' in sexuality education; title: 'It's not who they are it's what they're like': re-conceptualising the 'Best educator' debate; title: Sexuality education re-Imagined?: relinquishing the disease and pregnancy prevention focus; title: An impossible practice?: implications for future sexuality education.