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CfP: Educating Young People About Sex

Date: April 11-13th, 2014

Place: Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Website: http://www.gender.fss.muni.cz/poradane-akce/67-educating-young-people-about-sex.html

AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE

This conference aims to highlight the challenges we face in educating young people about sex and the impact that current social and educational discourses and practices may have on young people’s gender and sexual identities and practices. In particular, we are interested in drawing attention to the necessity of addressing issues of gender and sexual diversity and identity in sex education.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dagmar Herzog
Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar and a professor of history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (USA).

Claire Maxwell
Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Deborah Youdell
Professor of Sociology of Education, School of Education, University of Birmingham (United Kingdom).

We invite papers addressing issues within the general theme of this conference. Following, examples of the subtopics that could be addressed:

Subtopics:
* Gender issues in sex education in curricula and in teaching practices
* LGBTQI issues in school
* Political contexts of sex education
* Sex education and/in policy
* Addressing sexuality issues as a cross-curricular subject
* History of sex education
* Addressing inequality issues in sex education (presenting best practice)
* Teachers’ gender identities and sexual subjectivities in the process of teaching
* The construction of children’s sexuality in contemporary society
* Moral panic about the sexualisation of youth

HOW TO APPLY:

Please submit one page abstracts (300 words) by February 10 2014 to

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1smgh-h-E3PXNpSLSUqttmde-0qLPtWLeAOv8lIccy8Q/viewform

The proposal should contain a) the title, b) topic/ research question(s), c) theory, d) data and methods, e) (provisional) findings. Furthermore, it should include authors´ contact details, institutional affiliation and short bio.

CONFERENCE FEE:

Full 110 Euro
Students 90 Euro

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Lucie Jarkovská, assistant professor at gender studies programme, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University (Czech Republic), jarkovsk@fss.muni.cz

Vanita Sundaram, Senior Lecturer in Education, Department of Education, University of York, vanita.sundaram@york.ac.uk

Analia Inés Meo, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), University of Warwick,  analiameo@conicet.gov.ar

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