A feminist inquiry into Canadian pre-service teacher narratives on sex education and sexual violence prevention

Efforts to Enhance Education About Gender-Based Violence: A Teacher Workshop and Toolkit

“…These findings are supported by other research conducted on sexual violence prevention education in the Ontario context (Almanssori, 2022), and in Australia . A recent requirement by the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) for all licenced teachers in Ontario to take sexual assault response training demonstrates that the OCT recognizes the urgency of this subject.…”

“…A recent requirement by the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) for all licenced teachers in Ontario to take sexual assault response training demonstrates that the OCT recognizes the urgency of this subject. However, the training only covered the legal parameters of assault and professional standards such as duty to report (Almanssori, 2022(Almanssori, , 2023, neglecting the broader pedagogical implications of GBV. All existing training available to Ontario teachers focuses on interpersonal challenges but excludes pedagogical tools and strategies either to address the systemic bases of GBV in the classroom or prepare students to contribute to social change.…”

Pitfalls of feminist pedagogy: A case of the University of the Witwatersrand

“…Examples include, but are not limited to feminist pedagogies, decolonial pedagogies, socially just pedagogies and pedagogies for social justice. While some scholars such as Crabtree, et al (2009) have framed feminist pedagogy as an offshoot and variant of critical pedagogy, others have challenged this view, pointing to the lack of gender analysis that is apparent in the works of early scholars of critical pedagogy (see Almanssori, 2020;Luke, 1992). Ellsworth (1989) has even gone further in her critique, maintaining that critical pedagogy has non-liberatory tenants that reinscribe relations of dominance.…”

“…Even so, there is a dialogical relationship between various progressive pedagogical approaches such as critical pedagogies (Freire, 2000;Shor, 1992) and feminist pedagogies (see Almanssori, 2020;Crabtree, et al, 2009;hooks, 1994;Mupotsa, 2017). Both have influenced each other in various ways that it is not surprising that the two are at times conflated.…”