Legitimating Sex Education through Children's Picture Books in China

Autor/inn/en	Liang, Jennifer Yameng; Bowcher, Wendy L.
Titel	Legitimating Sex Education through Children's Picture Books in China
Quelle	In: Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 19 (2019) 3, S.329-345 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1811
DOI	10.1080/14681811.2018.1530104
Schlagwörter	Sex Education; Teaching Methods; Childrens Literature; Picture Books; Chinese; Preschool Children; Moral Values; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Young Children; Social Values; Sexuality; Marriage; Intimacy; Birth; Stereotypes; Foreign Countries; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sex instruction; Sexualaufklärung; Sexualerziehung; Sexualkunde; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Picture book; Bilderbuch; China; Chinesen; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Frühe Kindheit; Sozialer Wert; Sexualität; Ehe; Intimität; Geburt; Klischee; Ausland
Abstract	This paper analyses two Chinese sex education picture books for children aged between 3 and 6 years of age using van Leeuwen's legitimation framework, which identifies four types of legitimation strategies: authorization, moral evaluation, rationalisation and mythopoesis. Our findings suggest that personal authority tends to be vested in mothers as the conveyers of sex education to young children. Moral evaluation is realised through values such as responsibility and love, which are embedded in the description of biological events and physical objects, implicitly instilling in children the accepted heterosexual moralities that pervade mainstream Chinese society. Rationalisation is used to suggest a general social need to decrease the degree of directness in discussions about sex-related knowledge and to legitimise the appropriateness of the contents of sex education for young children. With respect to mythopoesis, both texts present a moral tale in which the love and marriage of a man and a woman is rewarded by the birth of a 'healthy, strong and clever' child. All these strategies configure to construe a moderately open, highly positive and fundamentally stereotypically heterosexual image of sexuality and procreation for young children in mainland China. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01