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5 - Exploring Ideologies of Sexuality in Curriculum Documents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2018

Helen Sauntson
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York St John University
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The focus of Chapter 6 is on the analysis of written curriculum documents and how issues around sexual identity and diversity are represented and encoded in these. I focus on the subjects which the young people and teacher participants seemed to discuss as being the most relevant to how they experienced sexuality at school –English and SRE in the UK and English Language Arts and Health Education in the USA. The curriculum documents were analysed using a combination of critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 2001) and corpus linguistics as a means of exploring how the language used in the documents contributes to the construction of particular ideologies around sexual diversity and identity. This chapter expands on previous work in which I have used CDA to examine the discursive construction of sexuality ideologies in the English National Curriculum programmes of study. Curriculum documents are important in both the UK and USA for governing the content and approach taken to teaching subjects in many secondary and high schools. Thus, the extended application of CDA to a wider range of documents may be useful to uncovering ideologies about sexuality as a pre-cursor to challenging any negative discourses which may be found.
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Print publication year: 2018

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