‘It gets narrower’: creative strategies for re-broadening queer peer education

Using collaborative performance ethnography in community- and school-based settings, sex education has the potential to challenge at-risk narratives for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) youth. This paper problematises the youth-led drama project Epic Queer to test the ‘queer’ potential of youth-driven initiatives at the school and community level, and to reject the singularity of victimised and ‘at-risk’ narratives so pervasive in sex education internationally about queer youth. By drawing on the It Gets Better Project as an example of widespread but narrowing social media texts encouraging normativity, deferred pleasure and a happiness narrative, this paper argues for the potential of performance-based arts engagement for re-expanding queer youth subjectivities.     

Scaling up comprehensive sexuality education in Nigeria: from national policy to nationwide application

Nigeria is one of few countries that reports having translated national policies on school-based comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) into near-nationwide implementation. We analysed data using the World Health Organization-ExpandNet framework, which provides a systematic structure for planning and managing the scaling up of health innovations. We examined how Nigeria's nationwide programme was designed and executed. Since 2002, Nigeria has developed a well thought through strategy to scale up CSE. Crucial attributes that facilitated the scaling up included technical consensus about the innovation and clarity about its components, dissection of a complex intervention into manageable components for implementation by organisations with complementary expertise, strong political leadership and championship in concert with advocacy and technical support from non-governmental organisations, proactive and energetic involvement of community stakeholders, effective programme management, and improvements to the information management system to ensure on-track implementation and mid-course corrections to keep stakeholders, including funders, informed and engaged. Challenges included programmatic values, competing priorities for available human resources and a lack of predictable funding for sustaining a rapid scale-up effort. Despite some weaknesses, implementation has largely proceeded according to plan. The lessons learned from Nigeria's experience can and should be used in other settings to achieve wide-scale coverage.     

Gay–straight alliance (GSA) members’ engagement with sex education in Canadian high schools

This paper offers an examination of gay–straight alliance (GSA) members’ engagement with sex education, sexual health, and prejudice and discrimination in Canadian public high schools. It explores how five students’ (four straight and one gay-identifying) participation in GSAs served as a springboard for learning about and challenging stereotypes; prejudice; and discrimination directed at lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) people. Queer theory provided the theoretical underpinnings of the study, offering a lens through which to examine the heteronormative underpinnings of education, and a means to interpret how homophobic discourses circulate in school and society. Empirical data were obtained via observational notes from visits to nine GSAs and semi-structured interviews with the five GSA members. Findings suggest that straight allies can use their heterosexual privilege to address LGBTQ issues with their peers. Through GSA involvement, participants learned to interrogate and combat stereotypes about LGBTQ people and HIV-related myths, as well as to engage in queer discussion and political action.     

Future Sex Educator Perceptions of Rural Versus Urban Instruction: A Case for Community-Centered Sexual Health Education

Instructors of sexual health courses in rural areas face unique challenges as they are often forced to use school-based prevention curricula field-tested in urban areas. Research has yet to consider what future sex educators’ regional expectations are for their profession and how those expectations might have an impact on the classroom. Drawing from interviews with 26 sex-educators-in-training, we find that future educators tended to expect that rural communities would be less diverse, more conservative, and less informed about sexual health matters, even though research demonstrates that today's rural communities inconsistently align with those perceptions.     

先秦婚仪婚俗探微

《仪礼.士昏礼》问名仪式中“敢请女为谁氏”的提问包含着丰富的礼教内涵,郑注仅理解为“谦也”,大失其旨。春秋时代“择偶自由”、“性观念开放”的结论与史实差距甚远,造成这种偏见的原因在于未能在概念上将周王朝主流婚礼与各种原因所造成的支流婚俗作明晰区分。     

合作素养:21世纪核心素养5C模型之五

合作是21世纪公民的必备素养,关注合作素养具有重要的现实意义。合作素养是一系列合作技能与态度的集合,涵盖愿景认同、责任分担与协商共进三个要素。愿景认同是基础,责任分担是关键,协商共进是保障。三要素相辅相成,有机融合。合作素养可以培养,如何结合中国语境,深入推进合作素养培养与评价是当前和今后的重要研究任务。     

妇女成为母系氏族公社中心的原因新探

先民对自身生产(即种的繁衍)的关怀以及他们性知识的极端缺乏,导致了先民把生育之功完全归于妇女,而认识不到男子在生育中的作用,由此产生了最初的以女性为崇拜对象的宗教观念——生殖崇拜,这种宗教观念又导致妇女在先民心目中的地位之崇高,这实际上就是妇女成为母系氏族公社中心的主要的和根本的原因。至于人们通常所说的妇女在生产劳动中占主要地位、“只知其母,不知其父”,虽然也可能是妇女成为母系氏族公社中心的原因．但它们不会是主要的和根本的原因。     

The Components of Great Sex

Ubiquitous “sex tips” in popular media evidence an unquenchable public interest in learning how to experience “great sex,” and studies confirm that a great sexual relationship correlates to general relationship satisfaction, which in turn correlates to overall happiness. While studies of great sex or “optimal sexuality” are few, enough is known to conclude that the paths to great sex depicted in popular media are largely dead ends. This lesson plan will help educators (a) dispel inaccurate information about optimal sexuality disseminated in the popular media and (b) inform students about the components of optimal sexuality.     

西方女性主义后性别社会理论与实践初探

首先从女性主义者角度指出性别社会存在对男性和女性不利的社会性别分工和角色定型,有必要提出消灭社会性别的后性别社会的概念;然后从生物性别的视角分析性别的多样性,指出两种性别的分类法不能反映世界的本来面目,又根据心理生理社会的解释模式和社会物理学的成果分析社会性别复杂性,解析本能、直觉等概念的经验来源及其性别歧视的成分;最后参考了有关性别平等的一些理论和实践,建议一些通向后性别社会的渠道.