Don't Forget, Thursday Is Test[icle] Time! The Use of Humour in Sexuality Education

Autor/in	Allen, Louisa
Titel	Don't Forget, Thursday Is Test[icle] Time! The Use of Humour in Sexuality Education
Quelle	In: Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 14 (2014) 4, S.387-399 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1811
DOI	10.1080/14681811.2014.918539
Schlagwörter	Sexuality; Sex Education; Humor; Teaching Methods; Grade 9; Foreign Countries; Classroom Environment; Secondary School Students; Ethnography; Observation; Interviews; Comprehensive School Health Education; Cultural Influences; Indigenous Populations; Minority Group Students; Gender Differences; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexualität; Sex instruction; Sexualaufklärung; Sexualerziehung; Sexualkunde; Humoristische Darstellung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Ausland; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Sekundarschüler; Ethnografie; Beobachtung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Sinti und Roma; Geschlechterkonflikt; Neuseeland
Abstract	Sexuality and humour share a fraught relationship at school, so that how humour might be productively employed in sexuality education constitutes a "risky" consideration. This paper explores the role of humour in sexuality education as observed in a Year 9 New Zealand health class. Adding to existing literature emphasising students' use of humour at school, it also considers how teachers might productively mobilise humour in the classroom. Findings reveal that while humour serves established purposes for students such as consolidating heterosexual masculinities, securing peer group hierarchies and disrupting learning agendas, it may hold other pedagogically productive possibilities. Potential uses include the relief of monotony, engaging with the needs of particular cultural groups of students, reinforcing taught information and reducing apprehension around potentially uncomfortable topics. Via this empirical exploration of the mobilisation of humour, the paper endeavours to open its potential as a conceptual site of possibility in sexuality education. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10