Risk Anxiety, Policy, and the Spectre of Sexual Abuse in Early Childhood Education

Autor/in	Jones, Alison
Titel	Risk Anxiety, Policy, and the Spectre of Sexual Abuse in Early Childhood Education
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 25 (2004) 3, S.321-334 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
Schlagwörter	Sexual Abuse; Early Childhood Education; Young Children; Foreign Countries; Anxiety; Risk; Case Studies; Public Policy; Self Control; Preschool Teachers; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexueller Missbrauch; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Frühe Kindheit; Ausland; Angst; Risiko; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Öffentliche Ordnung; Selbstbeherrschung; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Neuseeland
Abstract	How did early childhood education become "risky" for children and teachers? This paper takes a series of booklets written in the 1990s as a case study of the entry of official anxiety about sexual abuse in early childhood centres in New Zealand. I argue that these documents provided a basis for policy development which reflects risk anxiety rather than a proper, informed appraisal of any real dangers to children in early childhood education in New Zealand; in addition, the documents legitimate unprecedented ongoing (self-)regulation of teachers' practices, regulation about which critical questions cannot be asked without being understood as "denial" of abuse. It is concluded that the original documents, and the policies they engender, have had the negative and illegitimate effect of producing "risk of abuse" as a normal aspect of contemporary early childhood education. (Contains 5 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10