Sex, science and educational research: the unholy trinity<sup>1</sup>

Stronach, Ian; Frankham, Jo; Stark, Sheila

doi:10.1080/02680930601158968

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“…Irigaray notes this tendency: “the exploitation of women’s bodies by the pornographic media (1994 [1989], x).” British media adopt this kind of morally split discourse, typically in relation to topics like sexual assault, the “pregnant teenager,” or the “great paedophile panic” (Hoggart 2007). In such discourses, “purity and impurity must simultaneously contest each other” (Stronach, Frankham, and Stark 2007, 220). The “problem” of touch originates and is promoted in such a perverse circulation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Can Liberal Education Make a Comeback? The Case of “Relational Touch” at Summerhill School

Stronach

Piper

2008

American Educational Research Journal

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This article draws on data from a single element of a larger project1 which focused on the issue of “touching” between education and child care professionals and children in a number of settings. This case study looks at a school once internationally renowned as the exemplar of “free” schooling. The authors consider how the school works as a community, how it impacts on its students, and how it copes with the strictures of the audit culture in relation to “risk” and “safety.” The authors’ experiences led them to the realization that physical “touch” was an irrelevant focus in this school, and they developed the notion of “relational touch.” Summerhill works in ways that approximate an inversion of the audit culture. The authors argue that progressive and critical conceptions of education continue to have much to learn from concrete examples like Summerhill and conclude that a revival of such values in education is long overdue.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%