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.
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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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