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Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood - The contradictory nature of sexuality and censorship in children's contemporary lives (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R3,881
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Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood - The contradictory nature of sexuality and censorship in...

Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood - The contradictory nature of sexuality and censorship in children's contemporary lives (Hardcover, New)

Kerry H. Robinson

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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.

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2012
First published: 2013
Authors: Kerry H. Robinson
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 184
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-60967-8
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational psychology
Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > Pre-school & kindergarten
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children
LSN: 0-415-60967-4
Barcode: 9780415609678

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