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"Six Packs and Big Muscles, and Stuff like That". Primary School-Aged South African Boys, Black and White, on Sport
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Bhana, Deevia – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2008
This paper explores the salience of sport in the lives of eight-year-old and nine-year-old South African primary school boys. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data, I argue that young boys' developing relationship with sport is inscribed within particular gendered, raced and classed discourses in South Africa. Throughout the paper I show…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Males, Ethnography
The Price of Innocence: Teachers, Gender, Childhood Sexuality, HIV and AIDS in Early Schooling
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Bhana, Deevia – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2007
Drawing from data collected during interviews with grade 2 teachers who work in a black working-class township school, this paper explores the meanings that teachers attach to HIV and AIDS education. It is argued that the relationship of many teachers to the subject of HIV and AIDS is inscribed within regulatory forces based on the notion of…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Sexuality