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Kitching, Karl; Kiely, Elizabeth; Ging, Debbie; Leane, Máire – Gender and Education, 2021
This paper draws on an Irish government-commissioned study of parents' views about the sexualisation and commercialisation of children. We examine how parents understand 'sexualisation' qualitatively, through their evoking of past, present and future images of childhood. The data underlines how sexualisation becomes rationalised as something to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Sexuality, Children
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McCormack, Orla; Gleeson, Jim – Gender and Education, 2010
The "Exploring Masculinities" (EM) programme was piloted in 22 Irish single-sex boys' post-primary schools during the late 1990s. Following objections from some influential journalists and an organisation representing parents whose sons attended Catholic secondary schools, the Minister for Education and Science put the planned…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, Masculinity, Males