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Troubling School Toilets: Resisting Discourses of 'Development' through a Critical Disability Studies and Critical Psychology Lens
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Slater, Jen; Jones, Charlotte; Procter, Lisa – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
This paper interrogates how school toilets and 'school readiness' are used to assess children against developmental milestones. Such developmental norms both inform school toilet design and practice, and perpetuate normative discourses of childhood as middle-class, white, 'able', heteronormative, cissexist and inferior to adulthood. Critical…
Descriptors: Toilet Training, School Readiness, Disabilities, Psychology