Special Issue of Sex Education - Preparing Educators for Relationships and Sexuality Education: Critical Perspectives on Teacher Education and Professional Development

This special issue invites contributions that examine formal preparation routes, continuing professional development programmes, and practice-based pedagogic innovations designed for those who teach relationships and sexuality education (RSE) as a distinct subject or area of work.
Foregrounding teacher education and professional learning as vital sites for reimagining what it means to be and become an RSE educator, the issue welcomes work that engages with the relational, ethical, affective, and contextual complexities of RSE teaching, including critical, queer, feminist, posthuman, decolonial, Indigenous, postcolonial, and intercultural perspectives.

Abstracts for early feedback: 12 June 2026
Feedback provided by: 26 June 2026
Full papers due: 15 January 2027

Abstracts should be 250–300 words and sent to Leanne Coll: leanne.coll@dcu.ie

Guest editors: Leanne Coll, Simon Ceder, Lisa van Leent, and Aoife Neary.

Please share with colleagues working across RSE, teacher education, professional learning, youth studies, public health, sociology, cultural studies, and related fields.