Temporalities, pedagogies and gender-based violence education in Australian schools

Abstract

This chapter examines two resource kits produced 20 years apart for Australian secondary schools: No Fear: A Kit Addressing Gender-Based Violence (1995) and Building Respectful Relationships: Stepping Out Against Gender-Based Violence (2016). It considers whether there is a ‘subject didactics’ for teaching and learning about gender-based violence (Ligozat et al., 2015), and how this might be influenced by feminist pedagogies. The chapter opens with an account of how didactics, pedagogies and curriculum intersect. It then maps curriculum continuities and variations across time, through close analysis of the resource kits and sample classroom activities, identifying key didactic principles for learning about gender-based violence