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What Does the Teaching and Learning of Sexuality Education in South African Schools Reveal about Counter-Normative Sexualities?
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Francis, Dennis A. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2019
Using the interlocking concepts of power, knowledge and discourse, this article focuses on how counter normative sexualities are discursively constructed in the sexuality education classroom and with what effects. Drawing on in-depth interviews with teachers and classroom observation, the evidence highlights the presence of specific discourses…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sex Education, Sexuality, Teacher Attitudes
Sexual and Gender Diversity in Schools: Belonging, In/Exclusion and the African Child
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Reygan, Finn – Perspectives in Education, 2018
The school system in South Africa has only in recent years begun to more deeply grapple with issues of power and privilege along a number of axes of oppression including race, gender, class and recently, sexual and gender diversity. As a result, learners who embody sexual and gender diversity experiences spaces of belonging and exclusion in school…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Race, Gender Differences, Social Class
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Citizenship: A Case Study as Represented in a Sample of South African Life Orientation Textbooks
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Potgieter, Cheryl; Reygan, Finn C. G. – Perspectives in Education, 2012
Over the past two decades, sexual citizenship has emerged as a new form of citizenship coupled with increased interest in the challenges to citizenship and social justice faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people and, in particular, by sexual minority youth within education systems. In South Africa, the rights of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Sexual Orientation