Smellwalks as sensuous pedagogy in sexuality education: Sex Education and learning: Vol , No

Abstract

In our discussions about sexuality, Kathleen Quinlivan and I mused about how a subject as possibly vibrant and everyday living-improving as sexuality instruction could so frequently be taught in uninspiring and disembodied techniques. Students’ present critique of a lot sexuality training is that it is normally illness and risk centered, marginalises the sensuous system and fails to deal with their lived activities. Inspired by the wildness and adventure that Kathleen inspired in her get the job done, this paper is supplied as a provocation that makes an attempt to show up at to sexuality education’s pedagogy in another way. Using the strategy of ‘smellwalks’ as an educational exercise, it proposes a reconceptualisation of the matter in ways that endeavour to engage the overall body and the sensuous. The idea of smellwalk pedagogy worries the standard aims of sexuality schooling and how these are mobilised in the classroom. In the spirit of Kathleen’s curiosity in unruly features of sexuality and gender, smellwalks seek out to reconfigure the function and pedagogy of sexuality schooling and the nature of sexuality alone. The position of imagining about this kind of a pedagogical experiment is to capture the feeling of playfulness and experience at present missing from most sexuality programmes.