Transforming School Cultures Project – What did we end up producing?
After finishing the six workshops with our fantastic group of young people, we were in the challenging position of bringing together everything that we’d discussed and learnt into a set of tangible suggestions and resources for educators and schools that can help them in designing and delivering excellent RSE. We’re excited to say that we…
Workshop 6 – Inclusivity, diversity and ‘cultural sensitivity’ in RSE
Our final workshop with the young people – sad times! – involved us reflecting on the discussions of the previous five weeks and thinking about the key messages that we want to convey to educators and schools about what RSE should (and could) be and what it shouldn’t be. In some senses it was a…
Workshop 5 – Solutions to judgement and shame
Our penultimate workshop picked up the discussion about judgment and shame in the peer group. The previous workshop was somewhat of a ‘downer’, we could say. Our team of young people spoke candidly and eloquently about the ways in which young people judge and police one another’s behaviours in accordance with wider social norms and…
Workshops 3 and 4
We have now had two further workshops with our team of young people. Workshop 3 focused on exactly what we think schools need to know in order to design and deliver effective RSE. We conceived of classroom-based RSE as one part of the ‘ecosystem’ in which young people learn about and experience sex and relationships.…
Workshop 2 – Transforming the role of educator and pupil in RSE
In our second workshop, we started brainstorming ideas for what pupils, teachers and schools need and could do to create a ‘good’ RSE experience. Central to the discussion was the notion that RSE should offer pupils an opportunity to consider and grapple with complex and topical issues; practice and develop skills in debate, discussion and…
Workshop 1 – What are our aims?
Our first workshop with the team of young people on the project focused on the priorities for co-producing the resources for schools. The discussion started by covering familiar terrain about the limitations of current formulations of and approaches to RSE. The team typically felt that RSE is poor. It is often limited in scope, infrequent,…
Developing youth-led solutions
Find out more about the rationale for this project in terms of locating the challenges and issues that young people face within their peer cultural contexts. Sometimes, there is a tendency to take an individual-level approach to the risks and harms that young people face. We take these risks and harms for granted (and, in…
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