Publications and presentations
Peer Reviewed Journals
Gacoin, A. (2015). Risky forms of knowledge: Configuring pedagogical practices and their excesses in a sexuality education programme in South Africa. Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning. doi: 10.1080/14681811.2015.1124258
Gacoin, A. (2014). Teaching empowerment? Power and agency in sexuality education discourses in the context of HIV prevention programmes in South Africa. South African Review of Sociology, 45(3): 53-73. doi: 10.1080/21528586.2014.945944
Gacoin, A. (2010). Youth voice and HIV prevention: Discursive opportunities, limitations and productive impossibilities. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 31(2): 165-178. doi: 10.1080/01596301003679685
Gacoin, A. (2010). Sexuality, gendered identities and exclusion: The deployment of proper (hetero)sexuality within an HIV-prevention text from South Africa. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 12(4): 429-444. doi: 10.1080/13691051003602596
Other publications
Riley, T, Gacoin, A. (2011). Educate to empower: Training of trainers curriculum (AIDS Vancouver). Available at http://www.catie.ca/en/resources/educate-empower-training-trainers-curriculum
D’Allesandro, C. & A. Gacoin. (2006). Saving lives: Children’s right to HIV/AIDS treatment. Paper written for the Global Movement for Children.
Conference Presentations
Gacoin, A. (2016, March). Teaching empowerment? Gender, sexuality education and contested pedagogical relations of knowing with(in) an HIV prevention program in South Africa. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society. Vancouver, Canada.
Gacoin, A. (2015, July). Teaching empowerment: Encountering identity, power and agency with(in) a sexuality education programme in South Africa. Paper presented at the 3rd Conference of the Association for the Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Gacoin, A. (2015, July). Scripting equality: Contested understandings of gender identity and sexual orientation in sexuality education classes. Paper presented at the 3rd Conference for the Association of the Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Gacoin, A. (2014, June). Putting gender in motion: Teaching and learning during an ethnographic research study in South Africa. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vancouver, Canada.
Gacoin, A. (2014, May). Putting gender in motion within and across sexuality education curriculum: Findings from an ethnographic research study in South Africa. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), St Catherines, Canada.
Gacoin, A. (2014, May). Putting context in motion within an ethnographic research study in South Africa. Paper presented at the 10th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, United States.
Gacoin, A. (2012, April). Teaching empowerment? Power, agency and sexuality education in the context of global HIV prevention initiatives. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Vancouver, Canada.
Gacoin, A. (2011, November). Teaching empowerment? Power and agency in sexuality education discourses in the context of HIV prevention programmes. Paper presented at the 6th Social Aspects of HIV and AIDS Research Alliance (SAHARA) Conference, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Gacoin, A. (2010, October). Risking a worldly education for HIV prevention. Paper presented at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Western Regional Conference, Long Beach, United States.
Gacoin, A. (2010, July). Why doesn’t HIV prevention education feel empowering? Poster presented at the XVIII International AIDS Conference, Vienna, Austria.
Gacoin, A. (2010, May). Revisiting empowerment: HIV prevention discourse and me(n). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, Montreal, Canada.
Gacoin, A., J. Jacobs & T. Verani. (2007, June). Facilitating networking and knowledge exchange across university peer education programmes in Southern Africa. Poster presented at the 3rd South African AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa.