Exploring Contemporary Issues in Sexuality Education with Young People

Kathleen Quinlivan is Associate Professor in the College of Education, Health and Human Development at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Her research interests include sexuality education and conditions of transformational learning for young people, and she has published widely on these topics.

• Introduction: Contemporary Issues in Sexuality and Relationships Education with Young People: Theories in Practice.- Chapter 1. Queerly Affective Failure as a Site of PedagogicalPossibility in the Sexuality Education Classroom.- Chapter 2. “An Epidemic of Love”: Drawing on Students’ Lived Experiences of Challenging Hetero and Gender Normalcy to Engage with Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Classroom.- Chapter 3. Engaging with the Politics of Porn: Coming in ‘Slantwise’ with Contemporary Art in the Sexuality Education Classroom.- Chapter 4. Reconfiguring Sexuality Education as an Assemblage: Exploring Affective Becomings in aResearch ‘Classroom’.- Chapter 5. The Art of the Possible: Reconceptualising Sexuality Education as Rhizomatic Experimentation.- Afterword: Engaging with Theories in Practice in the Sexuality and Relationships Education Classroom – Some Ways Forward