Young People and Sexuality Education

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Louisa Allen

   Pages 1-19

3. Doing ‘it’: Researching Sexuality

   • Louisa Allen

   Pages 20-41

4. ‘They Think you Shouldn’t be Having Sex Anyway’: Young People’s Critique of Sexuality Education Content

   • Louisa Allen

   Pages 42-64

5. Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus? Re-thinking Gender Differences in Sexuality Education Content

   • Louisa Allen

   Pages 65-83

6. ‘Pleasurable Pedagogy’: Young People’s Thoughts about Including ‘Pleasure’ in Sexuality Education

   • Louisa Allen

   Pages 84-106

7. ‘It’s not who they are it’s what they’re like’: Re-conceptualising the ‘Best Educator’ Debate

   • Louisa Allen

   Pages 107-131

8. Sexuality Education Re- imagined? Relinquishing the Disease and Pregnancy Prevention Focus

   • Louisa Allen

   Pages 132-153

9. An Impossible Practice? Implications for Future Sexuality Education

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   Pages 154-181

10. Back Matter

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This book innovatively re-envisions the possibilities of sexuality education. Utilising student critiques of programmes 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?

• curriculum
• education
• gender
• prevention
• Sex
• women
• childhood studies

• Faculty of Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand

  Louisa Allen

LOUISA ALLEN Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her academic interests include critical sexuality education studies, masculinities, femininities and schooling and innovative research methods. She has also published Sexual Subjects: Young People, Sexuality and Schooling.

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