The Appropriation of Sex Education by Conservative Populism

One of Doug Ford’s first actions as Premier of Ontario, was to repeal the comprehensive health curriculum of 2015. Shortly thereafter his government unveiled a strikingly similar "new" curriculum for 2019-20. What role did populism, anti-elitism and fact-bending play in this process? Lauren Bialystok, of OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) will provide an overview of this issue and help us understand what we can do to support evidence-based sex education.

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Lauren Bialystok (https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/sje/People/47118/Lauren_Bialystok.html) holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and has been a faculty member at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education since 2012. Her research and teaching cover ethics, identity, philosophy of education, gender, and political theory. She is currently writing a book about identity and education with MIT Press and co-authoring a book on the philosophy and history of sex education with University of Chicago Press.