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Disability, education and prejudice

In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.

  • In pictures

Responses to Brook’s sex education guides

Brook Advisory Centres provided relatable sex-education information to young people, but their popular material sometimes resulted in criticism from politicians and the media.

  • In pictures

How an animation educated the army

In a 1940s cartoon intended to persuade US troops to take malaria medication, the makers pitted a clodhopping soldier against a wily mosquito. If only Private SNAFU had followed the government’s advice.

  • Article

Getting around the rules of sex education

What should we and shouldn’t we teach our teens about sex, inside and outside of the classroom?

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  • Everyone is a peer educator / GMFA.
  • Everyone is a peer educator / GMFA.
  • Methods and problems of medical education / Division of Medical Education, Rockefeller Foundation.
  • Methods and problems of medical education / Division of Medical Education, Rockefeller Foundation.
  • Methods and problems of medical education / Division of Medical Education, Rockefeller Foundation.
  • H.I.V./AIDS education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
  • H.I.V./AIDS education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
  • H.I.V./AIDS education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
  • H.I.V./AIDS education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
  • H.I.V./AIDS education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
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  • Discussion

AIDS Education, Audiences and Emotion

Viewing Room
Past

Part of Library Insights

  • Discussion
  • Youth event

Young People on Education and What We Learned From Lockdown

Online
Available to watch

Part of What Does It Mean To Be Young, Now?

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  • Gallery tour

Perspective Tour with Lillian Zwarts

Gallery 1
Past

Part of Perspective Tours

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