Good book

I have been reading a book called ' Young People and Sexuality Education - Rethinking Key Debates' by Louisa Allen who is the Associate Professor of The University of Auckland and the University of Cambridge. She has taught at both of these universities in the area of educational sociology, the sociology of youth, research methodologies, feminist post-structural theories and theories of gender. Her research interests lie in the area of sexualities, sexuality education, youth, gender and schooling. 


Louisa has been guiding me for many years in my quest to better prepare myself for sexual health and relationships education. She is very good at getting people to think about 'why' they are using the terms, the structure and the reasons for their pedagogy.


I urge anyone who is interested in sexuality education for young people to at least have a flick through this book( which is available through the SHineSA library).


These are the 3 chapters I particularly enjoyed:

• Pleasurable Pedogogy: Young peoples thoughts about including 'pleasure' in sexuality education:
• It's not who they are: It's what their like - Re-conceptualising the best educator debate
• Sexuality Education Re - Imagined ; Relinquishing the disease and pregnancy prevention focus.