Bahner, J orcid.org/0000-0001-8526-3659 (2018) Cripping sex education: lessons learned from a programme aimed at young people with mobility impairments. Sex Education, 18 (6). pp. 650-654. ISSN 1468-1811
Abstract
This paper analyses sexuality and relationship education (SRE) in a Swedish college programme aimed at young people with mobility impairments. Interviews and focus groups were conducted to explore students’ experiences of the structure, content and usefulness of SRE, and college personnel’s SRE practices. Results show that, although many of the issues covered are pertinent for all youth, being disabled raises additional concerns: for example how to handle de-sexualising attitudes, possible sexual practices, and how reliance on assistance impacts upon privacy. Crip theory is used as an analytical framework to identify, challenge and politicise sexual norms and practices. Students’ experiences of living in a disablist, heteronormative society can be used as resources to develop cripistemologies, which challenge the private/public binary that often de-legitimises learners’ experiences and separates them from teachers’ ‘proper’ knowledge production. Crip SRE would likely hold bene ts for non-disabled pupils as well, through its use of more inclusive pedagogy and in work to expand sexual possibilities. Crip SRE has the potential to disrupt taken-for-granted dis/ability and sexuality divides as well as to politicise issues that many young people presently experience as ‘personal shortcomings’.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Sex Education on 30th March 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14681811.2018.1456417. |
Keywords: | sexuality; disability; young disabled people; crip theory; special education; Sweden |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2018 09:45 |
Last Modified: | 30 Sep 2019 00:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14681811.2018.1456417 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:129086 |