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Millei, Zsuzsa; Cliff, Ken – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2014
In this paper we study the effects of power in a bathroom, which is a rarely analysed space in preschools, using empirical examples from a semi-ethnographic study conducted in New South Wales, Australia. We demonstrate that educators' understanding and practices mostly consider their own positioning in discourses and come short in accounting for…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Sanitary Facilities, Observation, Discipline
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Cliff, Ken; Millei, Zsuzsa – International Social Science Journal, 2011
In this article, the authors explore a vital, if rarely focused upon, space in early childhood settings (0-5 years): the bathroom. In bathrooms, more or less fundamental biological, self-care, and "civilising" (Elias 1978) processes are performed by children, such as those related to personal hygiene, the management of bodily discharges,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Hygiene, Sanitary Facilities