1st Edition

Exploring Elite Schools and Inclusive Child-Centred Sex and Relationships Education Bourdieu and Heteronormative Power Structures

By Matthew Round Copyright 2026
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

Contributing to the body of literature that applies Bourdieu to the study of educational institutions, this novel volume considers how elite schools could successfully incorporate inclusive equitable sex and relationship education (RSE) within the existing mechanisms of continuing professional development (CPD), to provide a programme based on the needs and discomfort of both students and... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction 

Chapter 2: The RSE Landscape 

Chapter 3: Pracademic Perspectives on Fieldwork in Elite Schools: Engaging with Relationships and Sex Education 

Chapter 4: A Child-Centred RSE Curriculum

Chapter 5: Teachers' Discomfort in RSE

Chapter 6: Continuing Professional Development and Relationships and Sex Education

Chapter 7: Conclusion

Index

Biography

Matthew Round is Lecturer in Educational Leadership and Management in the School of Education, Languages and Linguistics, University of Portsmouth, UK.