Sex, Science and Educational Research: The Unholy Trinity

Autor/inn/en	Stronach, Ian; Frankham, Jo; Stark, Sheila
Titel	Sex, Science and Educational Research: The Unholy Trinity
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 22 (2007) 2, S.215-235 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Sex Education; Educational Research; Adolescents; Pregnancy; Program Descriptions; Sexuality; Scientific Research; Accountability; Educational Policy; Research Reports; Rhetoric; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sex instruction; Sexualaufklärung; Sexualerziehung; Sexualkunde; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Schwangerschaft; Sexualität; Verantwortung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Rhetorik; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article examines the state's contemporary construction of "sex" as an educational problem in England. It does so by interrogating the notion of the "pregnant teenager" as it is semantically and statistically constructed in accountability discourses, as well as research constrained within them. It then examines certain features of an exemplary solution to the problem, as proffered by one of the largest contemporary research projects into sex education in the United Kingdom (the RIPPLE project). A critique is offered of the "scientific" nature of some of these findings. The authors claim conclusions to be undermined by statistical and rhetorical gerrymandering, a prejudicial rendering of pupil "voice", and an underlying reductionism. The article concludes that many of the features of such current problem-constructing and solution-rendering can be characterised as a false invocation of "Science", and that their conjunction fuels an enduring infantilisation of educational discourses about sex and sex education. (Contains 1 table, 2 figures and 23 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10