In recent years there has been a swell of praxis experimenting with cultivating methodological and pedagogical approaches to working with children, young people, parents and teachers as key stakeholders (Allen 2018; Gilbert et al 2018; Quinlivan 2018; Renold et al 2021) in ways that open up relationships and sexuality education (RSE) to its ‘more than’ (Manning 2013). This symposium will bring together a collective of international educational researchers who are pushing the boundaries of how critical educational praxis might attune to the diversity of children, young people, parents and teachers’ contemporary gender and sexuality becomings (Davies et al, 2021; Neary, 2022; Ollis et al, 2020;Renold, 2019; Robinson et al, 2023). In dialogue with feminist, queer, trans, new materialist and posthuman theories, this symposium seeks to diversify thinking about the transformative potentials of RSE. In doing so, it offers a collection of critical, creative and co-produced encounters with what more RSE related research and praxis might do, be and become across diversified educational contexts and societies.

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