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Teaching about Sex and Sexualities in Higher Education argues that much more can be done in teaching about sex and sexuality in higher education.This edited collection provides key information on professional training and support, and acts as a crucial resource on sex, sexuality, and related issues. With a focus on diversity, this book features expert contributors who discuss key concepts, debates, and current issues across disciplines to help educators improve curriculum content. This collection aims to provide adequate and appropriate sex education training and opportunities to educators so that they may explore complex personal and emotional issues, build skills, and develop the confidence necessary to help others in their respective fields.

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9781487524722

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"""This book demonstrates clear objectives pertaining to providing needed resources on sexuality pedagogy from a social work lens, and includes sound scholarship on a diversity of sexuality-related issues and topics. Well-researched and inclusive of a wide array of perspectives, this is a major contribution to the social work pedagogical literature.""--Stephanie Begun, Assistant Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto ""A pleasure to read, this long-overdue book articulates a social justice perspective on exploring current debates and hot topics, while integrating diverse voices and perspectives. The contributors draw on their own professional and personal experiences, integrating current literature and candid discussion to critically engage readers in strategically challenging the barriers to openly and honestly discussing sex and sexuality.""--Sheri M. McConnell, School of Social Work, Memorial University ""This collection makes an extremely important contribution to the higher education literature on teaching about sex and sexualities. The eighteen chapters, written by an interdisciplinary list of experts, cover a range of critically important issues for faculty members and students preparing to become social workers or other kinds of human and psychiatric services professionals. ""--Richard L. Edwards, Rutgers University"

A pleasure to read, this long overdue book articulates a social justice perspective on exploring current debates and hot topics, integrating diverse voices and perspectives, and providing practical applications and recommendations for teaching about sex and sexuality in higher education. The authors draw on their own professional and personal experiences, integrating current literature and candid discussion to critically engage readers in strategically challenging the barriers to openly and honestly discussing sex and sexuality. - Sheri M. McConnell, School of Social Work, Memorial University This book demonstrates clear objectives pertaining to providing needed resources on sexuality pedagogy from a social work lens and within a Canadian-specific context, and includes sound scholarship on a diversity of sexuality-related issues and topics. Well-researched and inclusive of a wide array of perspectives, this is a major contribution to the social work pedagogical literature. - Stephanie Begun, Assistant Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto

"""A pleasure to read, this long-overdue book articulates a social justice perspective on exploring current debates and hot topics, while integrating diverse voices and perspectives. The contributors draw on their own professional and personal experiences, integrating current literature and candid discussion to critically engage readers in strategically challenging the barriers to openly and honestly discussing sex and sexuality."" - Sheri M. McConnell, School of Social Work, Memorial University ""This book demonstrates clear objectives pertaining to providing needed resources on sexuality pedagogy from a social work lens, and includes sound scholarship on a diversity of sexuality-related issues and topics. Well-researched and inclusive of a wide array of perspectives, this is a major contribution to the social work pedagogical literature."" - Stephanie Begun, Assistant Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto ""This collection makes an extremely important contribution to the higher education literature on teaching about sex and sexualities. The eighteen chapters, written by an interdisciplinary list of experts, cover a range of critically important issues for faculty members and students preparing to become social workers or other kinds of human and psychiatric services professionals. "" - Richard L. Edwards, Rutgers University"

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Susan Hillock is a professor of social work at Trent University.

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