The personal is pedagogical: how teacher identities inform students’ experience of Sex Education.

$35.00

Young LGBT+ and disabled people say that sex education needs to reflect their experiences, and that it needs to be done by someone who isn’t cisgender, heterosexual and able-bodied. Talking about our personal lives is often actively avoided by educators, this lecture explains why knowing a teacher’s identity matters to students, and how we can begin to inject our identity into our teaching.

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Faculty: Dr. Helen Dring-Turner, PhD

Young LGBT+ and disabled people say that sex education needs to reflect their experiences, and that it needs to be done by someone who isn’t cisgender, heterosexual and able-bodied. Talking about our personal lives is often actively avoided by educators, this lecture explains why knowing a teacher’s identity matters to students, and how we can begin to inject our identity into our teaching.

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