Not Innocent, but Vulnerable

Jarkovská, Lucie; Lamb, Sharon

doi:10.1017/9781108116121.005

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“…Furthermore, that youth may be motivated to view IP on account of their friends was ranked in the top five across all adult groups, and ranked second after curiosity by caregivers (in comparison to 10th by youth themselves). Caregivers' attribution of youth IP viewing to peer pressure downplays the challenging notion of children as sexual beings and may to some extent preserve an image of childhood innocence (Jarkovská & Lamb, 2018). The widespread and dominant Western view of children as innocent, pure and asexual (alongside sex as being improper and a source of taboo) has led to anxieties among caregivers about introducing sexual information too early or too much in their children's lives, which is reflected in the types of messages caregivers deliver to youth about IP (Lamb et al, 2018).…”

Section: Divergences Between Caregivers Educators and Youthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth Encounters with Internet Pornography: A Survey of Youth, Caregiver, and Educator Perspectives

Healy-Cullen

Taylor

Ross

et al. 2021

Sexuality & Culture

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Despite international inquiry regarding young people’s encounters with Internet pornography (IP), there is a lack of knowledge about how their caregivers (parents or guardians) and educators perceive these encounters in comparison to young people. Such knowledge is critical to understanding the synergies and discrepancies that might exist between these key stakeholder groups (youth, caregivers and educators) and across genders, to subsequently inform how to best support youth in navigating IP. To this end, the present study describes youth (16–18-year olds) encounters with IP, as well as caregiver and educator perceptions of these encounters. An online survey was completed by 256 youth and 217 caregivers and educators recruited from nine schools with an existing investment in sexuality education in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Similar to global trends, this group of young New Zealanders were familiar with IP and patterns of encounters were gendered. However, there were varied understandings between stakeholder groups and across genders as to why and how these encounters occur. Understanding the ways youth encounter IP—and exploring how caregivers and educators perceive these encounters—serves as a springboard for future research that considers the broader socio-cultural context within which these perspectives are constructed.

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Section: Divergences Between Caregivers Educators and Youthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth Encounters with Internet Pornography: A Survey of Youth, Caregiver, and Educator Perspectives

Healy-Cullen

Taylor

Ross

et al. 2021

Sexuality & Culture

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Section: Childhood Innocencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The goal of protecting innocence is inclusive of restricting information about sexuality and gender diversity (Jarkovská and Lamb, 2018;Robinson, 2013). Attempting to maintain innocence by omitting knowledge does not increase protection but makes young children more vulnerable to harm from adults and peers by not having open conversations about gender and sexuality Jarkovská and Lamb, 2018;Robinson, 2013). We believe that this construct of childhood innocence becomes internalized by educators as something that regulates and silences open conversations about gender and sexuality in early learning settings (Robinson, 2005a(Robinson, , 2013.…”

Section: Childhood Innocencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The implicit dominance of childhood innocence and DAP acts to regulate whether and how early childhood educators address the development of sexuality in early learning settings. Training in sexuality education needs to deconstruct oppressive ideologies that have a structural hold and façade of protection (Jarkovská and Lamb, 2018). Unpacking the notion of childhood innocence uncovering how and why it operatesis critical for early childhood educators' self-understanding, with practical implications for how sexual and gender development in early childhood is addressed (Balter et al, 2018(Balter et al, , 2021Davies, 2021).…”

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“…Unpacking the notion of childhood innocence uncovering how and why it operatesis critical for early childhood educators' self-understanding, with practical implications for how sexual and gender development in early childhood is addressed (Balter et al, 2018(Balter et al, , 2021Davies, 2021). Jarkovská and Lamb (2018) critique the concept of innocence and propose that (1) protecting the unknowing child by keeping them without knowledge contradicts protecting children; (2) childhood innocence is used as a political agenda, creating moral panics urging the public to shelter children (e.g. Ontario's sexual health education curriculum repeals; Bialystok, 2018;Bialystok et al, 2020); and (3) 'innocence is racialized, classed' (Jarkovská and Lamb, 2018: 78) and sexist, with the portrayal of the white middle-class female child as the most innocent and in need of protection through romanticized constructions of white femininity, whereas males and racialized children are perceived as already knowing, corrupted and therefore less innocent.…”

Section: Recommendations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sexuality education and early childhood educators in Ontario, Canada: A Foucauldian exploration of constraints and possibilities

Davies

Simone-Balter

Rhijn

2021

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

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Open conversations regarding sexuality education and gender and sexual diversity with young children in early childhood education settings are still highly constrained. Educators report lacking professional training and fearing parental and community pushback when explicitly addressing these topics in their professional practices. As such, gender and sexual diversity and conversations of bodily development are left silenced and, when addressed, filtered through heteronormative and cisnormative frameworks. Through a Foucauldian post-structural lens, this article analyses data from open-ended qualitative questions in a previous research study regarding early childhood educators’ perceptions on discussing the development of sexuality in early learning settings in an Ontario, Canada context. Through this Foucauldian post-structural analysis, the authors discuss forms of surveillance and regulation that early childhood educators experience in early learning settings regarding the open discussion of gender and sexuality. The authors explore how both the lack of explicit curricula addressing gender and sexuality in the early years in Ontario and taken-for-granted notions of developmentally appropriate practice, childhood innocence, and the gender binary – employed in discourses of sexuality education in the early years – regulate early childhood educators’ professional practices. The authors provide recommendations which critique the developmentalist logics – specifically, normative development – that are used to silence non-heterosexual and non-cisgender identities in the early years, while articulating the need for explicit curricula for educators in the early years regarding gender and sexuality in young children.

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2023

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

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Not Innocent, but Vulnerable

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

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Youth Encounters with Internet Pornography: A Survey of Youth, Caregiver, and Educator Perspectives

Sexuality education and early childhood educators in Ontario, Canada: A Foucauldian exploration of constraints and possibilities

Of the forbidden frontiers of the body: exploring teachers’ narratives about students’ sexuality in the south Indian state of Keralam

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