Tiffani Kocsis: Critical Analysis of Sexuality Education in the United States: Toward an Inclusive Curriculum for Social Justice

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In A Critical Analysis of Sexuality Education in the United States: Toward an Inclusive Curriculum for Social Justice, Tiffani Kocsis provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the many components of sexuality education in the United States. Kocsis focuses primarily on outlining the historical and political contexts of American sexuality education, the theory of adolescent sexuality, and the implementation of sexuality education in the classroom. She examines the underlying conceptions, theories, and behavior that make up the curriculums of sexuality education in United States classrooms. Ultimately, the book aims to direct individual school communities and administrators in the development of a comprehensive sexuality education curriculum, which is inclusive of all students and provides the necessary information to their respective student body. In other words, Kocsis favors the creation of small-scale sexuality education curriculums specifically tailored to individual school communities over prescriptive programs meant to apply to children in general. Tiffani Kocsis thoroughly and impressively outlines the complexity of components that go into the creation of a sexuality education curriculum. Her connection of the historical and social context, theory, and framework of sexuality education provides an in-depth picture of what inclusive sexuality education should look like, and gives effective methods to achieve this. …