Place-Based Sex/Sexuality and
Relationship Education
One-day Conference at The Institute of Education, University of London, 23
May 2007
We are holding a one-day conference on place-based sex/sexuality and
relationship education in central London on 23 May 2007. The conference is
intended for academics, professionals, policy makers and practitioners in
schools, colleges and elsewhere. We hope that you will be able to come –
whether to offer a paper, display a research-degree poster, lead a
workshop or simply attend.
Delegates are invited to interrogate how place contextualises
sex/sexuality and relationship education. Place is widely interpreted and
includes:
• places at all geographical scales (towns, city boroughs, regions,
countries)
• institutional places (the home, youth clubs, schools, health
centres, universities)
• non-institutional places (outdoors, communities)
• media places (TV, Internet, magazines)
• creative places (art, performance, fiction).
Offers of papers are welcomed from within a variety of academic
disciplines – particularly cultural studies, health education, sociology,
philosophy and psychology – and from a variety of ideological standpoints.
The conference will not assume that sex/sexuality and relationship
education takes place only in educational institutions and the family.
Contributions are therefore welcomed which, for example, analyse the
impacts of media and other vehicles of culture on sexual behaviour and
attitudes. Medical and epidemiological papers (e.g. of trends in the
incidences of sexually transmitted infections) will not be accepted unless
their educational implications are discussed adequately. We are
particularly interested in papers that evaluate, extend and/or critique
existing theory and/or practice.
If you would like to offer a paper, display a research-degree poster or
lead a workshop please e-mail a title and abstract of up to 400 words to
Professor Michael Reiss at [log in to unmask] by 3 January 2007 at the
latest. Presented papers should be 20-25 minutes in length and will be
followed by 10-15 minutes of discussion and questions. Workshops should be
35 minutes in length. There will be parallel sessions. A selection of the
papers will be published in a special issue of the journal Sex Education:
Sexuality, Society and Learning, to be edited by Judy Hemingway. There
will also be opportunities to publish a short professional article in a
special issue of Learning for Life.
If you would like to come to the conference, whether or not you will be
giving a paper, displaying a poster or leading a workshop, please use the
on-line registration form available at www.ioe.ac.uk/mst/sexedu or send
credit card details or a cheque for £80.00 (£50.00 if you are a registered
student and provide appropriate documentary evidence of this) made payable
to ‘Institute of Education’ to Noreen Syed, MST, Institute of Education,
University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, UK by 1 February
2007. The price may rise for registrations made after that date. Clearly
state your name, institution and e-mail / postal address. The cost
includes registration, lunch, all morning and afternoon refreshments and a
personal subscription to the journal Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and
Learning for the year 2007 (unless you are already a personal subscriber).
The conference will run from 10.00 to 17.00. Coffee/tea will be available
from 09.30 to 10.00. There will be lunch at 12.15 and coffee/tea with
Danish pastries at 14.45. A wine and soft-drinks reception will close the
conference.
The media will be invited to attend the conference and reporters may wish
to attend presentations and interview delegates and exhibitors.
The venue is The Institute of Education, University of London, situated in
Bloomsbury in the heart of London. There is a map at
www.ioe.ac.uk/locationMap.
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