Cultural Aspects of Sex/Sexuality Education

One-day Conference at The Institute of Education, University of London, 25 May 2005

We are holding a one-day conference on cultural aspects of sex/sexuality education in central London on 25 May 2005. The conference is intended for academics, professionals, policy makers and practitioners in schools, colleges and elsewhere. A selection of the papers will be published in a special issue of the journal Sex Education, to be edited by Judy Hemingway.

To register for the conference at the early registration price, please send a cheque for £55.00 (£40.00 if you are a registered student and provide appropriate documentary evidence of this) made payable to ‘Institute of Education’ to Sanam Javed, MST, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, UK by March 31st 2005. 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 (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/14681811.html) for the year 2005 (unless you are already a personal subscriber). If coming from overseas and unable to pay in pounds sterling, please e-mail Sanam Javed at or telephone her at +44 (0)20 7947 9522.

The following papers have been accepted and the conference will also see the launch of two major new books in sex/sexuality education:

·  Pam Alldred: Textual/sexual politics: shared values and pluralism in sex education policy

·  Louisa Allen: ‘Erotic politics’ constituting a discourse of erotics in sexuality education

·  Elizabeth Atkinson: The sound of silence: talking about sexual orientation and schooling

·  Martine Bouman: Health on screen: the portrayal of sex and relationships in soaps and drama series

·  Sara Bragg and Jenny Grahame: Using the media to teach about love, sex and relationships

·  David Buckingham: Show and tell: learning about sex and relationships from television drama

·  Jan Deeming: Developing school based sex and relationship education programmes which meet the needs of Asian Muslim pupils growing up in multi-cultural inner city Birmingham today

·  Linda Eyre: No sex please, we’re ... Canadian?

·  Christine Fanthome: The use of multi-media resources to raise public awareness of sexual health: an analysis of the rationale, execution and findings of the Department of Health’s ‘Sex Lottery’ campaign

·  Fungisai Gwanzura-Ottemoller: The importance of early sex education within the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Zimbabwe

·  Naomi Hamer: “I just want to be normal”: the role of adolescent and tween fiction in sex and sexuality education (both inside and outside the classroom)

·  Jamie Heckert: Radically rethinking sex education: relationships, ethics and power

·  Carlos Fonseca Hernández and Maria Luisa Quintero Soto: Transexualidades and diversity of gender: course of formation for transsexual mediators and workers of the sex in the prevention of the vih/sida in Madrid, Spain

·  Gillian L. S. Hilton: The provision and efficacy of sex and relationships and sexuality education: opinions of teachers from a variety of developing countries on the effects of culture on the provision of sex and relationships education in their home countries

·  Chimaroke Otutubikey Izugbara: Constructions of sex and sexuality in local erotic songs and chants (circulating) among rural Nigerian adolescent males

·  Diederik Janssen: Current Western problems of "taught" and propaedeutic sexualities

·  Amanda Lambros: Cyber-education, a simple step towards cyber-safety

·  Paula Mayock: Ireland’s sexual revolution: making up for lost lessons in sex education

·  Lynda Measor: Condom use and adolescent males in the UK: a culture of resistance

·  David J. Mellor: The ‘Doing It’ debate: Melvin Burgess, teenage literature, and the paradoxes in contemporary cultural attitudes towards sex/sexuality education in the UK

·  Gabrielle Morrissey: Female first sexual intercourse: a model for sexuality education

·  Ayodele Ogunleye: The effect of HIV/AIDS knowledge on HIV/AIDS related behaviours of university students

·  Sharyn Pearce: Sex and the cinema: what Hollywood teaches the young

·  Hilary Piercy and Gillian Haynes: Delivering effective primary school sex education

·  Kate Philip, Janet Shucksmith, Janet Tucker, Mari Imamura, Gillian Penney, Ann Fitzmaurice, Edwin van Teijlingen: Condom capers or caring, confidential service: can sexual health drop-ins be all things to all young people?

·  Kathleen Pithouse: ‘The New Struggle’: HIV/AIDS as context and content for teacher development in South Africa

·  Annik Sorhaindo and Louise Morley: Sexual harassment of students in higher education: evidence from research on gender equity in Nigeria, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Tanzania

·  Adrienne Testa: 'Oh God! How can we talk about sex?': cultural and religious factors influencing preferred sex education delivery among black and minority ethnic youth

·  Joy Walker and Jan Milton: Is it possible to develop a theoretical framework that explores a universal dimension to sexuality education between continents? The experience of comparing Leeds and Sydney

·  Rebekah Willett: Cyberfashion – girls’ consumption and production of online fashion

The conference will run from 10.30 to 16.30. Coffee/tea will be available from 10.00 to 10.30. There will be lunch at 12.30 and coffee/tea with Danish pastries at 15.00.

The venue is The Institute of Education, University of London, situated in Bloomsbury in the heart of London. There is a map at http://www.ioe.ac.uk/locationMap