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Feeling Abstinent? Feeling Comprehensive? Touching the Affects of Sexuality Curricula
Lesko, Nancy
Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, v10 n3 p281-297 Aug 2010
This interpretive study draws on interdisciplinary scholarship on affect and knowledge to ask: toward what feelings do abstinence-only and comprehensive sexuality education curricula direct us? A methodology that is attuned to double exposures is discussed, and one abstinence-only sexuality education curriculum and one comprehensive sexuality education curriculum are reviewed. The interpretation provides an alternative to the usual representation of these curricula as oppositional. Both of the curricula direct knowers to feel sure, optimistic, and free. Both curricula evidence longings for stable knowledge and guaranteed meanings. Finally, learners are directed to feel that knowledge can solve all problems smoothly and happily. Mistakes, negativism, and confusion are excluded from both sets of sexual knowledge. Implications of this interpretation for changing sexuality education are discussed. (Contains 1 table and 12 notes.)
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexuality, Secondary School Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Knowledge Level, United States History, Social Attitudes, Social Behavior, Social Influences, Self Control, Comprehensive School Health Education
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