Abstract

Curriculum change involves struggles among political actors and interest groups, and those efforts related to sex education have been noted for their particularly vexatious character. When Doug Ford was elected Premier of Ontario, Canada in 2018, he immediately repealed the comprehensive health curriculum of 2015 and attempted to muzzle teachers during the 2018–2019 school year, only to unveil a strikingly similar “new” curriculum for 2019–2020. This article analyses Ford’s treatment of sex education as part of a conservative populist agenda. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, we divide the government’s approach into six components that illustrate how anti-elitism and fact-bending drove curriculum policy. Our analysis contributes to discussions in curriculum studies and educational politics by connecting the recently ascendant political ideologies in the West with the already contentious area of sex education.

摘要

课程改革涉及政治参与者和利益集团之间的斗争，与性教育有关的那些努力因其特别令人生厌的性格而闻名。当道格·福特在2018年当选为安大略省省长，加拿大，他立即废除2015年的全面健康课程，并试图在2018-2019学年枪口教师，只推出一个惊人相似的“新”课程为2019 - 2020。本文分析了福特将性教育作为保守的民粹主义议程的一部分的情况。使用批判性话语分析，我们将政府的方法分为六个部分，说明了反精英主义和事实弯曲如何推动课程政策的发展。