A Critical Analysis of Preservice Teachers' Efforts to Make Sense of Young Children's Sexual Acts towards Adults

Autor/in	Alat, Zeynep
Titel	A Critical Analysis of Preservice Teachers' Efforts to Make Sense of Young Children's Sexual Acts towards Adults
Quelle	In: Acta Didactica Napocensia, 8 (2015) 3, S.37-46 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2065-1430
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preschool Teachers; Early Childhood Education; Preservice Teachers; Sexuality; Young Children; Teacher Student Relationship; Semi Structured Interviews; Females; Student Attitudes; Sexual Harassment; Social Attitudes; Misconceptions; Crime; Student Behavior; Behavior Problems; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Sexualität; Frühe Kindheit; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Schülerverhalten; Sexuelle Belästigung; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Missverständnis; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Student behaviour; Türkei
Abstract	This study explored Turkish early childhood education teacher candidates' efforts to make sense of sexual behaviors of both young girls and boys towards them or their colleagues during their field experience or in their daily experiences with young children. Semi-structured interviews with 13 female teacher candidates revealed that their perception of young children as "innocent beings," their education that emphasize teachers' responsibility to cultivate curiosity in children, and their position in the hegemonic heterosexual world make these teacher candidates to avoid naming sexual acts of young children as harassment; blame their friends who were the target of those acts; tend to find other explanations for children's sexual acts rather than seeing children as sexual beings; and see sexual harassment as something women actually can enjoy. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Babes-Bolyai University. Kogainiceanu 1, Cluj-Napoca, 400084 Romania. e-mail: submit_adn@yahoo.com; Web site: http://adn.teaching.ro
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01