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Session Type: Symposium
The health and sexuality education of young people are contested and controversial sites of educational practice. While clearly of public concern and educational worth, these subjects tend to be of low priority in schools. Meanwhile young people have ready access to a plethora of confusing, contradictory, commercial and exploitative publicly-available health and sexuality information (online and elsewhere). The papers in this session address issues of health and sexuality education at the intersection of politics, policy and practice. Drawing on different theoretical positions and empirical work, the authors raise questions about whether young people in schools have the right to learn about, debate, question and study health and sexuality in all its complexity, uncertainty, contested-ness and difference across cultural contexts.
Counter-School-Health-Education: Queering Intersections Between Sexuality Education and Health Education - Mary Louise Rasmussen, Monash University; Deana Leahy, Monash University
Risking Ambivalence: Sex Education and the Problem of Health - Jen Gilbert, York University
Sexuality Education: Policy in Neoliberal Times - Katie Fitzpatrick, University of Auckland; Darren Powell, University of Auckland
"Things Change": Working the "Healthy" Sexuality Education Assemblage in an Age of Uncertainty - Kathleen Anne Quinlivan, University of Canterbury
Pedagogical Sites for Sexuality Education: Moving on From School to Test the Limits of Possibility - lisa hunter, University of Waikato