Hvordan forstå barns aldersnormale seksualitet i barnehagen?

Skundberg, Øystein

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“…Until the end of the 19th century, it was a common opinion in both medicine, psychology and pedagogy that sexuality first arose when people reached puberty ( Skundberg, 2020 ). Rousseau (1991) , known as the father of childhood in pedagogy, held that children needed to be shielded from the problems of the adult world, which has been highly influential until today ( Almås and Benestad, 2017 ).…”

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“…Moreover, the postmodern understanding that considers childhood sexuality as culturally and socially created. Skundberg (2020) suggests that too much attention has been given to the origin of sexuality, arguing that the heterological perspective can contribute to us being able to assess sexuality based on the function and effect it has for the child rather than being concerned with whether it comes from within or from without.…”

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“…At the end of the 19th century, the attitude about the innocent child was challenged ( Skundberg, 2020 ). Freud, who was a student of Charcot, is considered the discoverer of child sexuality, because of his three essays on sexual theory (1991[1905]).…”

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“…Freud, who had previously asserted that children’s sexual behavior was unhealthy tendencies and the result of artificial influence from the outside, was swayed by Moll’s research, which suggested a homologous approach, meaning that childhood and adult sexuality stemmed from the same biological and developmental drives ( Sauerteig, 2012 ). Freud’s normalization of childhood sexuality must be nuanced according to Skundberg (2020) because Freud’s claimed that childhood sexuality had a future significance and was a preparation for adulthood. Freud claimed that children were polymorphically perverse, which means that they are attracted to both sexes, and that there was a deviation from the preferred heterosexual intercourse ( Freud, 1991 ; Grünfeld and Svendsen, 2014 ).…”

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“…Further suggested that children’s masturbation arose as a result of “seduction” from other children or adults (p.50) and if children were curious about other people’s bodies and showed off their bodies, it was one step on the way to seeing others as sexual objects, meaning that children had to learn to control their urges and desires ( Skundberg, 2020 ). He considered most activities that created pleasure in the child as sexual, e.g., thumb sucking and going to the bathroom.…”

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Hvordan forstå barns aldersnormale seksualitet i barnehagen?

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Purity or perversion? from taboo to fact: kindergarten teachers’ reflections on age-normal sexuality

Purity or perversion? from taboo to fact: kindergarten teachers’ reflections on age-normal sexuality

Children’s Sexuality and Nudity in Discourse and Images in a Danish Education and Care Journal over 50 Years (1970–2019): The Emergence of “The Child Perpetrator of Sexual Abuse” in an International Perspective

Multidisciplinary Approach in Health: New Strategies from the Perspective of Education, Management, Culture and Gender

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