Description: "The Language of Sex Education explores sex education pedagogy in the Australian context. It provides descriptions of the key topics of consent and respect, illustrating how teachers impart technical knowledge and how they support students to adopt and challenge the nuanced values needed when engaging with sex education. It does this through new descriptions of key linguistic resources of technicality and iconisation that synthesise the central knowledge and values of the field. This book not only provides a detailed account of sex education pedagogy, but also offers new insights into the role of language in building fields and building communities"--
Brief description: Georgia Carr is a Research Fellow in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University, as well as in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Review Quotes:
"Georgia Carr's volume is an exciting contribution to studies on sex education, with an innovative perspective on what such education looks like in real sex education classrooms and aiming at providing teachers with resources for how best to 'do' it. The impact of this systematically researched work will be substantial. In the words of the author in closing her study: "A linguistic description of sex education pedagogy is well positioned [...] to contribute to effecting change in classrooms and bedrooms the world over." Yes, I agree entirely." --Donna R. Miller, Alma Mater Professor, University of Bologna, Italy
"Dr. Carr's book shows how she has established a highly rigorous, innovative, and systematic approach to her research on sex education. Overall, she shows very expertly how legal discourse around consent and respect is recontextualized in the classroom discourse of two focal teachers." --Ruth Harman, Professor, University of Georgia, USA "Axi-tech & Axicon, two newly innovated concepts by Jim Martin, get fully-fledged in this book by Georgia Carr, and successfully applied to analysing the language of sex education and legal discourse. I highly commend this book, with respect to their wisdom, to colleagues in the field of forensic and legal linguistics." --Yuan Chuanyou (Richard), Professor of Forensic Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China