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Jones, Alison – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2004
How did early childhood education become "risky" for children and teachers? This paper takes a series of booklets written in the 1990s as a case study of the entry of official anxiety about sexual abuse in early childhood centres in New Zealand. I argue that these documents provided a basis for policy development which reflects risk…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries