The School of Education at Drexel University presents Global Education Colloquium (GEC) Brown Bag Lunch Series:
Sex education has never won a sustained foothold in modern schools. Although sexual attitudes around the world have liberalized in the past half-century, sex education has not followed suit; indeed, the modern phenomena of globalization have mostly served to inhibit--not to expand--the subject. As visual and digital technologies spread new sexual images and ideas around the world, citizens joined hands to curtail sexual instruction in their schools. In the 20th century, the movement of people and ideas across nations made sex education into a subject without a home.
Jonathan Zimmerman is Professor of Education and History at the
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New
York University. Zimmerman also holds an appointment in the History
Department in NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A former Peace
Corps volunteer and high school teacher, Zimmerman is the author of Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education (Princeton, 2015) and four other books. He is a frequent op-ed contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post,
and other popular newspapers and magazines; he also appears every other
week on WHYY, Philadelphia's National Public Radio affiliate, to
discuss contemporary events in historical perspective. In 2008,
Zimmerman received NYU's Distinguished Teaching Award.
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About the Global Education Colloquium:
Established
in November 2013, the Global Education Colloquium is a monthly Brown
Bag Lunch Series that features distinguished speakers and lively
discussion.
The topics presented will be the
result of research spanning the full range of learning, teaching and
training topics including international studies, higher education, peace
education, social justice, inequality, politics of knowledge, policy,
leadership and organizational change.
GEC
events are held the third Tuesday of every month on the main campus of
Drexel University, start promptly at 12 Noon. You are invited to bring
your lunch. Drinks and cookies will be served.
Learn more about the Global Education Colloquium Series.
