This book explores contemporary issues in sexuality and relationship education for young people. Drawing upon rich empirical and ethnographic research undertaken with students and teachers in secondary schools, the author asks how school-based sexuality education can better equip young people to engage with contemporary social, political and cultural sexuality and relationships issues. Creatively working across both theoretical and practical contexts, this accessible work suggests approaches to sexuality and relationships education that can build upon the ways in which young people are developing a sense of identity; the ultimate aim being to help them to meet their emotional, spiritual and relational potential. Challenging established approaches to sexuality education, this thought-provoking book shines a new light on alternative perspectives that can help make sexuality and relationships education more relevant and meaningful for young people in a rapidly changing world. This volume will be of interest and value to students and scholars of sexuality and relationship education, as well as practitioners.

Autorentext
Kathleen Quinlivan is Associate Professor in the College of Education, Health and Human Development at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Her research interests include sexuality education and conditions of transformational learning for young people, and she has published widely on these topics.

Inhalt
Introduction: Contemporary Issues in Sexuality and Relationships Education with Young People: Theories in PracticeChapter 1. Queerly Affective Failure as a Site of Pedagogical Possibility in the Sexuality Education ClassroomChapter 2. An Epidemic of Love: Drawing on Students' Lived Experiences of Challenging Hetero and Gender Normalcy to Engage with Sexual and Gender Diversity in the ClassroomChapter 3. Engaging with the Politics of Porn: Coming in 'Slantwise' with Contemporary Art in the Sexuality Education ClassroomChapter 4. Reconfiguring Sexuality Education as an Assemblage: Exploring Affective Becomings in a Research 'Classroom'Chapter 5. The Art of the Possible: Reconceptualising Sexuality Education as Rhizomatic ExperimentationAfterword: Engaging with Theories in Practice in the Sexuality and Relationships Education Classroom Some Ways Forward