UnboXing relationships and sexuality education with a phEmaterialist arts-activist praxis

Renold, EJ. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6472-0224 and Timperley, Victoria 2024. UnboXing relationships and sexuality education with a phEmaterialist arts-activist praxis. Gender and Education 10.1080/09540253.2024.2370271

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Abstract

Inspired by posthuman, feminist materialist theory-doings in educational research, this paper maps moments in a post-qualitative research project that set out to explore what else relationships and sexuality education might become with ‘art-as-way’ (Manning Citation2020) in a shaky yet conducive policy context where ‘what matters’ must not be assumed in advance but co-constructed with children and young people. Progressively supported by an artist-in-residence teacher assistant, composer and filmmaker, we open up what unfolds when a diverse group of 11 young people (age 13–14) creatively unbox and make ‘what matters’ to them in an art classroom. We conceptualize what came to matter as ‘dartaphacts’ (arts-activist objects) and follow these other-worldly posthuman pARTicipants as they connect, grow, and become ‘more-than’. We speculate, that in conducive, con-sense-ual environments, the affective power of dartaphacts can unbox a living curriculum for a Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) to come, in all its Majestic Insecurity, Untitled, Freedoms, Feathers, Bruised Hearts, Consent-quakes, eQuality Vibrations and Wiggly Woos.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	0954-0253
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	19 September 2024
Date of Acceptance:	31 May 2024
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2024 13:06
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/172246

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