Overview
- Examines young trans and gender diverse Australians’ views of school-based sex education
- Limits the capacity of schools and teachers to meaningfully explore diversity in the classroom
- Constrains queer identities to the realm of sex and health
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education (GED)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Researching Trans Youth and Sex(uality) Education
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Formal Sex(uality) Education
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Informal Sex(uality) Education
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Reimagining Sex(uality) Education
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines young trans and gender diverse Australians’ views of school-based sex education. The analysis is informed by a queer epistemology that acknowledges the systematic and institutional erasure of trans subjectivities through highly medicalised systems of categorisation. Drawing on primary qualitative data, the author emphasises the accounts of trans and gender diverse young people as they relate to sex education at school, and how they undertake informal learning about sex, gender and identity in other areas of their lives.Ultimately, the book problematises the assumption that the sex education classroom is the most appropriate vehicle for social justice education in relation to queer issues. Queer issues and sex education tend to be packaged together discursively, deliberately or by association in dominant media narratives. However, this discourse constrains queer identities to the realm of sex and health, and therefore does not engage with the social citizenship ofqueer people. Further, this limits the capacity of schools and teachers to meaningfully explore diversity in the classroom, as sex education is front-and-centre in the so called ‘culture wars’ about gender, sexuality, youth and schools.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Barrie Shannon is Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Their research focuses on educational issues for LGBTIQA+ youth, informed by intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical pedagogy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sex(uality) Education for Trans and Gender Diverse Youth in Australia
Authors: Barrie Shannon
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92446-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92445-4Published: 03 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92448-5Published: 04 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92446-1Published: 02 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2524-6445
Series E-ISSN: 2524-6453
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 217
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Education, general, Gender Studies, Queer Studies