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Here we go again: shit happens, adults panic, ‘how we gonna talk to the kids about it?!’ 
then they discover, ‘oh, kids know shit’...
At least this article article is a bit better than the usual in that this is acknowledged.
1/ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/14/students-teachers-grapple-with-capitol-attack?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
then they discover, ‘oh, kids know shit’...At least this article article is a bit better than the usual in that this is acknowledged.
1/ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/14/students-teachers-grapple-with-capitol-attack?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
But I would dearly love to see a social scientist quoted in such pieces
#askasociologist
#askanathropologist
#askahistorian
of childhood and indeed more interviews with children themselves
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#askasociologist
#askanathropologist
#askahistorian
of childhood and indeed more interviews with children themselves
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#thefigureofthechild is bored out of its mind (yes, mind, not brain) of being defined by psych alone in the public sphere
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The problem is not children, the challenge is, according to the research that the adults in their lives - be they parents or teachers - find conversations about ‘sensitive’ topics difficult and uncomfortable and only have them when prompted by events (cf. guardian article)
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As it happens @ChildhoodPublix w our @ERC_Research Child Photo Archive https://childhoodpublics.org/projects/childphotoarchive/ @SociologyGold @varchr (w help from @ellewltn @DeniseT01 @natalt) are working on some fun resources we hope will facilitate such conversations & foreground what children already know
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In the meantime, this morning I’m off to teach our wonderful @SociologyGold (anthro & media) students who take my #ChildhoodMatters 3rd year optional module; have asked them to scour the news for child and youth related stories to help us unpick ideas of the child!
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