Developing Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Primary English Teacher Instruction via Picturebooks

Abstract

This paper focuses on how mediation around contemporary children’s picturebooks contributes to developing Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in primary English teacher instruction. It discusses picturebooks from a gender perspective, introduces queer pedagogy to articulate with gender and sexual diversity and elaborates upon creative teaching ideas with a focus on language learning, art and critical thinking on identity construction.