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Constructing Childhood: Discourses About School Violence in the Greek Daily Press
Author(s) -
Avgitidou Sofia,
Stamou Anastasia G
Publication year - 2013
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/j.1099-0860.2011.00402.x
Subject(s) - early childhood , sociology , homogeneous , gender studies , childhood studies , developmental psychology , romance , psychology , psychoanalysis , physics , thermodynamics
This study explores the construction of discourses about childhood in the Greek daily press. It employs the theoretical frameworks of the new sociology of childhood and critical discourse analysis to question which discourses of childhood are constructed in the daily press presenting cases where children were the victimisers in school violent episodes. The study showed that while there are distinct discourses constructed in the texts such as the romantic childhood, the minority group childhood, the homogeneous childhood and the childhood as actor, these tend to co‐exist textually. Results are critically discussed in relation to the positioning of children through everyday practices such as the daily press.