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Re-Doing Teaching: Teachers’ Conceptions of ‘Sex Education’

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Uplifting Gender and Sexuality Education Research

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This book chapter explores the possibility of doing G&S education and research differently by re-doing teaching. Specifically, it challenges teachers’ conceptions of their work in this area, including the assumption teachers should not engage with gender or sexuality at all. The chapter argues cisgender and heterosexual norms are so inherently promoted in schools and so visibly engaged with by teachers; that non-engagement implicitly supports traditional G&S positions. It outlines relevant curricula and policies on sex education endorsing a critical teaching approach, and data showing some teachers take pleasure in a critical approach regardless of curriculum requirements.

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    Lisa van Leent

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  1. Department of Educational Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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  2. Faculty of Arts and Education , Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, VIC, Australia

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  3. Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Lisa van Leent

  4. School of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

    Yvette Taylor

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van Leent, L. (2019). Re-Doing Teaching: Teachers’ Conceptions of ‘Sex Education’. In: Jones, T., Coll, L., van Leent, L., Taylor, Y. (eds) Uplifting Gender and Sexuality Education Research. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24205-3_8

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