Denying the Sexual Subject: Schools' Regulation of Student Sexuality

Autor/in	Allen, Louisa
Titel	Denying the Sexual Subject: Schools' Regulation of Student Sexuality
Quelle	In: British Educational Research Journal, 33 (2007) 2, S.221-234 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-1926
Schlagwörter	Young Adults; School Culture; Sexuality; Sex Education; Educational Environment; Well Being; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Foreign Countries; Secondary School Students; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Sexualität; Sex instruction; Sexualaufklärung; Sexualerziehung; Sexualkunde; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Sexual transmitted disease; Geschlechtskrankheit; Ausland; Sekundarschüler; Neuseeland
Abstract	This article examines some of the discourses and practices through which schools produce and regulate student sexual identities. It suggests that schools' "official culture" can be seen as a discursive strategy which identifies a preferred student subject that is "non-sexual". This preference is communicated through the contradictory nature of discourses and practices which constitute "official school culture" around student sexuality. These discourses work to simultaneously acknowledge student sexuality and position young people as "childlike". Through the tension created by these contradictory positionings, schools can be seen to undermine the kind of sexual agency that young people might access to support their sexual well-being. It is concluded that schools' deployment of discourses around sexuality produces student sexual positionings that may in fact dilute sexuality education's "effectiveness" (in terms of the production of sexually responsible citizens). (Contains 3 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10