Multi-dividual voices: a posthumanist exploration of student participation in Swedish sexuality education

This paper explores student participation in sexuality education. Framed through a posthumanist lens, the exploration is guided by the notions of assemblages, embodiment and affectivity, attending to student participation as relational processes. With collaborative and ethnographic methodologies across three secondary schools in Sweden, the empirical material includes interviews with teachers and students, workshops with teachers, and involvement in classroom teaching. The analysis maps how the sexuality education assemblage generates particular conditions through which student participation becomes enacted in relation to two key practices: the planning of teaching and classroom discussions. These practices are not viewed as discrete actions, but as vital components in the collective enactment, as they highlight the frictions of student participation in sexuality education and beyond. In the concluding remarks, the discussion turns to how listening with multi-dividual voices can afford the co-creation of both relevant and responsive sexuality education.