Overview

A Critical Analysis of Sexuality Education in the United States explores the development of sexuality education in North America and uses economic, legal, and psychological paradigms to identify and trace exclusionary programming and practices in schools. By analyzing legal and political documents, as well as state and private curricula, this insightful text considers the historical and contemporary experiences of adolescents in connection to the social structures of sexuality education. Challenging the current state of sex education in the United States, in terms of both content and delivery, the chapters succinctly illustrate how schools are failing to meet the developmental needs of all students. Student perspectives and evidence-based research demonstrate that an exclusionary curriculum is failing to equip students with the knowledge and understanding they require to undergo a process of empowerment about their sexuality, and engage in safe, informed, and consensual sexual activity. Finally, by employing a rights-based approach to sexuality education, the author offers important recommendations for change in state and federal curricula. Offering unique and comprehensive insight into the state of sex education in the United States, this text will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, academics, researchers, policy-makers, and libraries in the fields of sexuality education, education policy and politics, sociology of education, gender studies, and curriculum studies.

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Author:   Tiffani Kocsis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9781138318311

ISBN 10:   1138318310
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   14 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I: Overview 1. Two Distinct Approaches to Sexuality Education Programs 2. Issues of Gender and Orientation 3. Critical Feminist Theory, Queer Theory and Critical Pedagogy: Applications in Sex Ed Part II: Traditional and Critical Emancipatory Sexuality Theory: in contrast 4. Traditional Views of Adolescent Sexuality Development 5. Gender, Power, and Sexualities Part III: The Federal Politics of Sexuality Education 6. Sex Education Rises to a National Conversation 7. Conservative Mobilization 8. Modern Policies Part IV: Case Law and Legal Challenges 9. Establishing Trends 10. Supreme Court Cases 11. Circuit and District Court Cases 12. Rising Challenges Part V: Implications for School Site Programming 13. Abstinence-Only Education – Problematic Exclusions 14. To Begin the Transformation 15. Social Justice Ideals for Sexuality Education

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Tiffani Kocsis thoroughly and impressively outlines the complexity of components that go into the creation of a sexuality education curriculum. Her connection of the historical and social context, theory, and framework of sexuality education provides an in-depth picture of what inclusive sexuality education should look like, and gives effective methods to achieve this. -Claire T. Thompson, Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Tiffani Kocsis thoroughly and impressively outlines the complexity of components that go into the creation of a sexuality education curriculum. Her connection of the historical and social context, theory, and framework of sexuality education provides an in-depth picture of what inclusive sexuality education should look like, and gives effective methods to achieve this. -Claire T. Thompson, Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Author Information

Tiffani Kocsis is Assistant Principal at Campbell Hall in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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