Declining nudes: Canadian teachers’ responses to like sexting in the sexual overall health and human advancement curriculum: Intercourse Schooling: Vol , No

Abstract

Addressing sexting in sexual health education lecture rooms is 1 way of supporting younger persons to grow to be superior sexual citizens and to emphasise respect and consent in their sexual practices and in their lives. Whilst a reasonable total of exploration has labored with youth to recognize their motivations for sexting, considerably less study has been performed with in-assistance academics to fully grasp their perspectives, pedagogical approaches, and beliefs with regards to young individuals and sexting. Established in this context, this paper discusses conclusions from interviews with Canadian lecturers who ended up training a new Ontario Wellbeing and Actual physical Instruction curriculum that integrated discussions of sexting. Our results counsel that quite a few teachers are continue to partaking discourses of possibility, disgrace and blame when they chat to their college students about sexting. Similarly, longstanding gender norms and stereotypical sexual scripts are evident in the techniques in which numerous teachers both equally understand and teach sexting. Some lecturers, however, are participating in more promising pedagogical techniques that body sexting as possessing a vary of works by using, outcomes, and purposes, portray a more holistic photo of young people’s sexting landscapes. Results from this paper could be useful for educators and policymakers making sexting curriculum for young people in academic configurations.