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Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood

The contradictory nature of sexuality and censorship in children’s contemporary lives

By: Kerry H. Robinson

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Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood

The contradictory nature of sexuality and censorship in children’s contemporary lives

By: Kerry H. Robinson

Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood provides a critical examination of the way we regulate children’s access to certain knowledge and explores how this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood, to children’s vulnerability and to the constitution of the ‘good’ future citizen in developed countries. Through this controversial analysis, Kerry H. Robinson critically engages with the relationships between childhood, sexuality, innocence, moral panic, censorship and notions of citizenship. This book highlights how the strict regulation of children’s knowledge, often in the name of protection or in the child’s best interest, can ironically, increase children’s prejudice around difference, increase their vulnerability to exploitation and abuse, and undermine their abilities to become competent adolescents and adults. Within her work Robinson draws upon empirical research to: provide an overview of the regulation and governance of children’s access to ‘difficult knowledge’, particularly knowledge of sexuality explore and develop Foucault’s work on the relationship between childhood and sexuality identify the impact of these discourses on adults’ understanding of childhood, and the tension that exists between their own perceptions of sexual knowledge, and the perceptions of children reconceptualise children’s education around sexuality. Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood is essential reading for both undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking courses in education, particularly with a focus on early childhood or primary teaching, as well as in other disciplines such as sociology, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies.

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Rethinking School Violence

Theory, Gender, Context

By: Kerry Robinson,Cristyn Davies

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Rethinking School Violence

Theory, Gender, Context

By: Kerry Robinson,Cristyn Davies

Taking a sociocultural approach to understanding violence, the authors in this collection examine how norms of gender, culture and educational practice contribute to school violence, providing strategies to intervene in and address violence in educational contexts.

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Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood

The contradictory nature of sexuality and censorship in children’s contemporary lives

By: Kerry H. Robinson

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The contradictory nature of sexuality and censorship in children’s contemporary lives

By: Kerry H. Robinson

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Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood

Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood

Rethinking School Violence

Rethinking School Violence

Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood

Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood

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