36.420, Books: The Language of Sex Education: Carr (2024)

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Subject: 36.420, Books: The Language of Sex Education: Carr (2024)

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Date: 01-Feb-2025
From: Rachel Bradshaw [rachel.bradshaw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Language of Sex Education: Carr (2024)


Title: The Language of Sex Education
Subtitle: With Respect to Consent
Series Title: Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-of-sex-education-9781350461079/

Author(s): Georgia Carr

Hardback: 9781350461079

Abstract:

This book offers a deep dive into sex education pedagogy in the
Australian context, taking a close look at the language used to teach
the key topics of consent and respect.
It examines questions students ask, how teachers accommodate different
beliefs in their classrooms, and how students learn about more
values-based topics including consent, respectful relationships, and
gender and sexuality diversity. It also considers what teaching and
assessment looks like over the course of a school term and what makes
a 'successful' student. In short it answers the question – how is sex
education actually taught?
The Language of Sex Education provides the first book-length treatment
of the language of sex education, offering a detailed account of
pedagogy from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The
study is situated in the Australian context, though has broader
relevance to places such as New Zealand, North America, and the United
Kingdom whose sex education is historically and culturally comparable
to that of Australia.
The book provides descriptions of the key topics of consent and
respect, illustrating how teachers impart technical knowledge and how
they support students to adopt and challenge the nuanced values needed
when engaging with sex education. It does this through new
descriptions of key linguistic resources of technicality and
iconization that synthesize the central knowledge and values of the
field. Through these descriptions and analyses, this book not only
provides a detailed account of sex education pedagogy, but also offers
new insights into the role of language in building fields and building
communities.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics




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