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Publication Date: 2009
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"Sexing the Subject": Evoking "Sex" in Teaching an Undergraduate Course about Sexuality
Allen, Louisa
International Studies in Sociology of Education, v19 n3-4 p245-256 Sep-Dec 2009
This paper seeks to explore the relation between sexuality and pedagogy. This theoretical concern is examined with reference to two key pedagogical moments during a first-year undergraduate course about schooling and sexuality. Through critical reflection of these episodes it is argued that when sexuality is the intellectual focus of a course, the pedagogical scene becomes inescapably "sexual". While existing research analyses desire between teacher and student as a potential element of the pedagogical scene, this paper investigates how sexuality might manifest more generally and offer a pedagogical resource in educational encounters. The possibility of a sexual and embodied pedagogy that explicitly invites students to be sexual subjects in a space that traditionally prioritises mind over body is considered. How teacher and student subjects are invoked and to what ends this might be pedagogically productive are also investigated.
Descriptors: Sexuality, Undergraduate Study, Teaching Methods, Anxiety, Foreign Countries, Course Content, Teacher Student Relationship, Homosexuality, Feminism, Rape, Comprehensive School Health Education
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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