Australia Association for Research in Education
respectful relationships
Why a good consent curriculum is about much more than yes please. Here’s what we need to do now
If, like me, you weren’t glued to the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee proceedings recently, you might …
Six things schools need to do now to stop gendered violence
Wesley College refers sexual assault and harassment complaints to police (ABC News, March 2021) Abuse Scandal Shocks St …
My immediate reaction was one of stunned disbelief and shock
Australia’s leading expert in visual methods and learning design wonders if learning designers actually had any hand in the creation of the Good Society resources. Like many members of the public my first encounter with The Good Society Resources was through social media posts and the evening television news. This was designed to be the …
Why bizarre milkshakes will never replace world-class consent education
The Government would only have had to go as far as Victoria to do better, writes Amanda Keddie. Education academics, women’s rights campaigners and many in between have criticised some of the material in the government’s new respectful relationships resource for schools. Particularly controversial in the Good Society resource is a video of a girl …
If you want gender justice, should you ban private boys’ schools?
The “offensive and misogynistic behaviour” of elite private school boys that routinely erupts into the public consciousness is not an aberration. It is a byproduct of the heterosexist ‘machinery’ that organises relational life within these schools (Variyan & Wilkinson, under review). There is strong evidence that young female teachers are being responsibilised for boys sexually …
How sex ed can save the workplace and the world
A young student reveals he’s had “regular, valuable and powerful talks” about consent and respect but they haven’t had the “intended and crucial impact. One educator explains what should be done. By Georgia Carr I have sat in sex education classrooms and been amazed by what I’ve seen. Teachers who taught consent in great detail …