The Preschool Bathroom: Making "Problem Bodies" and the Limit of the Disciplinary Regime over Children

Autor/inn/en	Millei, Zsuzsa; Cliff, Ken
Titel	The Preschool Bathroom: Making "Problem Bodies" and the Limit of the Disciplinary Regime over Children
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 35 (2014) 2, S.244-262 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2012.761394
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Sanitary Facilities; Observation; Discipline; Architecture; Facility Guidelines; Daily Living Skills; Ethnography; Interviews; Childhood Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Administrator Attitudes; Parent Attitudes; Childrens Rights; Discourse Modes; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Sanitäre Einrichtung; Beobachtung; Disziplin; Architektur; Alltagsfertigkeit; Ethnografie; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Lehrerverhalten; Elternverhalten; 'Children''s rights'; Kindesrecht; Diskursethik; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	In this paper we study the effects of power in a bathroom, which is a rarely analysed space in preschools, using empirical examples from a semi-ethnographic study conducted in New South Wales, Australia. We demonstrate that educators' understanding and practices mostly consider their own positioning in discourses and come short in accounting for children's practices in and expressed views on the bathroom. Educators also remain distant from children's bodily experiences. The interplay of the open architectural design of the bathroom space and dominant discourses operating in the preschool constitute some children as "problem bodies" apparently requiring (and justifying) direct intervention. Following this reasoning we argue that the surveillance, regularisation and normalisation in the bathroom is far from total, which leads us to question the adequacy of understanding the bathroom as forming a part of a modern (disciplinary) institution. (As Provided).
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