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Growing sideways: Re‐articulating ontologies of childhood within/through relationships and sexuality education (RSE)
Author(s) -
Atkinson Catherine,
Coll Leanne,
McBride RuariSantiago,
Whittington Elsie,
Zanatta Francesca
Publication year - 2023
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12535
Subject(s) - human sexuality , sociology , sexuality education , gender studies , field (mathematics) , early childhood education , early childhood , pedagogy , developmental psychology , sex education , psychology , mathematics , pure mathematics
This article presents a collaborative reflective‐thinking‐writing project that draws from the authors’ experiences of co‐productive and critical inquiry with children in the field of gender, sexualities and education. Integrating our collective concerns regarding how childhood can be negatively framed and policed within/through RSE, we explore how these ontological boundaries might be queered through a collective engagement with the possibilities for/of RSE that is affirmative, playful and co‐produced with, rather than for, children.