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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
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Slater, Jenny; Jones, Charlotte; Procter, Lisa – Gender and Education, 2018
In this paper we argue that school toilets function as one civilising site [Elias, 1978. "The Civilising Process". Oxford: Blackwell] in which children learn that disabled and queer bodies are out of place. This paper is the first to offer queer and crip perspectives on school toilets. The small body of existing school toilet literature…
Descriptors: Sanitary Facilities, Disabilities, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity