Perceptions of criminalization towards sex education among a generational sample of Canadian Pakistani Muslims
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2018-04-01
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Of late, the Liberal government and the Ontario Ministry of Education implemented
revisions to the provincial sex education curriculum, such as gender expression and
same-sex relationship dialogue. These revisions led to intense debate of sex education in
Ontario. At the forefront of these protests were South Asians, specifically those of
Muslim descent belonging to the Pakistani community. The content as well as age of
learning was awkward and unconventional, and threatened the collectivistic patriarchal
family life and social order creating, at times, a generational divide. The aim of this thesis
is to qualitatively explore 16 Canadian Pakistani Muslims perceptions and process of
stigmatization, marginalization and criminalization towards the revised sex education
curriculum by generation using Berger’s (1967) Heretical Imperative and Crenshaw’s
(1991) Intersectionality perspective. Research in this area is scarce and limited and my
thesis aims to reconcile gaps in the scholarship and mobilize knowledge to educators and
policy makers.
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Pakistani Canadian Muslims, Heretical imperative, Intersectionality, Criminalization of sex education, Public schools