Child sexuality and interdependent agency in sexuality education texts for Swedish preschool practitioners 1969−2021: three discourses on children’s sexual play

IF 1.4 4区 教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Sex Education-Sexuality Society and Learning Pub Date : 2023-09-28 DOI:10.1080/14681811.2023.2261382
Magdalena Hulth, Anne-Li Lindgren, Anna Westberg Broström
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This paper provides a discourse analysis of 12 Swedish sexuality education texts intended for preschool practitioners and published between 1969 and 2021. Using Fairclough’s framework, we identify three discourses about children’s sexual play in relation to children’s sexual agency in the texts: child sexuality as encouraged and entangled with adult sexuality; child sexuality as conditioned by what is perceived as normal or abnormal in children; and child sexuality as repressed. These three discourses mainly appear chronologically, but also overlap and connect with one another. When analysis begins from children’s position and a theoretical understanding of children’s and adults’ agency as interdependent, it becomes possible to see how the child is construed as agentic, and how the adult role changes from encouraging sexual play to regulating and monitoring behaviour so that it does not occur. Over time, discourse on young children’s sexual play has changed our understanding of both adults and children. Adults are increasingly construed as less knowledgeable in relation to young children’s sexuality, and young children have become understood as more dangerous and in need of having their sexuality constrained and civilised.
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1969 - 2021年瑞典学前教育从业者性教育文本中的儿童性行为和相互依赖的代理:关于儿童性游戏的三种话语
本文对1969年至2021年间出版的12篇针对学前教育从业者的瑞典性教育文本进行了话语分析。利用费尔克劳的框架,我们确定了三种关于儿童性游戏与文本中儿童性代理的话语:儿童性行为被鼓励并与成人性行为纠缠在一起;儿童性行为取决于儿童的正常或不正常;儿童的性欲被压抑了。这三种话语主要按时间顺序出现,但也相互重叠和联系。当从儿童的立场和对儿童和成人相互依赖的能动性的理论理解出发进行分析时,就有可能看到儿童是如何被解释为能动性的,以及成人的角色是如何从鼓励性游戏转变为调节和监督行为以防止这种行为发生的。随着时间的推移,关于幼儿性游戏的讨论改变了我们对成人和儿童的理解。成年人越来越被认为对幼儿的性行为缺乏了解,而幼儿则被认为更危险,需要约束和教化他们的性行为。
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