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Autor/inn/en | Taragin-Zeller, Lea; Kasstan, Ben |
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Titel | 'I Didn't Know How to Be with My Husband': State-Religion Struggles over Sex Education in Israel and England |
Quelle | In: Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 52 (2021) 1, S.5-20 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Zusatzinformation | ORCID (Taragin-Zeller, Lea) ORCID (Kasstan, Ben) |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0161-7761 |
DOI | 10.1111/aeq.12358 |
Schlagwörter | Foreign Countries; Sex Education; Religion; Conflict; Ethnography; Jews; Models; Developmentally Appropriate Practices; Marriage; Birth; Israel; United Kingdom (England) |
Abstract | Sex education presents a major dilemma for state-minority relations, reflecting a conflict between basic rights to education and religious freedom. In this comparative ethnography of informal sex education among ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim) in Israel and England, we frame the critical difference between "age-appropriate" and "life-stage" (marriage and childbirth) models of sex education. Conceptualizing these competing approaches as disputes over "knowledge responsibility," we call for more context-specific understandings of how educational responsibilities are envisioned in increasingly diverse populations. "I see the Haredi community as a victim to a shady deal that was made on its back since the establishment of the [Israeli] state. Education is under state responsibility. Ilan Gilon, Israeli Member of Knesset, 2018. State interference in religious education is "possibly the most serious" issue facing Jews in the UK since the expulsion ordered by Edward I over 700 years ago. Rabbi Zimmerman, Chief Rabbi of Haredi Jews in Gateshead, England, 2018." These two statements reflect a current controversy in Israel and the UK regarding the right to autonomy over education among Haredi Jews, who constitute self-protective religious minorities otherwise known as "ultra-Orthodox."3 Education is a contested domain between religious minorities and the state in Israel and England, but current controversies have been amplified surrounding relationships and sex education (henceforth RSE). In our comparative ethnography among Haredim in both Israel and the UK, we found competing conceptualizations of "knowledge responsibility" regarding RSE between state policy makers and religious activists. Although state policy aims to deliver RSE in age appropriate ways, Haredim instead approach sex education as appropriate solely according to life stages. Although Israel and the UK have distinct political approaches and histories to education, our comparative approach traces the similarities between competing conceptualizations of "knowledge responsibility" between Haredim and state policies across these two settings. We draw on ethnographic research of Haredi relationships curricula and educators in both Israel and England to ask: What forms of informal education are advanced by Haredi educators in the absence and evasion of educational infrastructures? How do these efforts to bridge knowledge gaps create new forms of knowledge gatekeeping and power? How can ethnographic accounts of bodily and sexual education in religious minority communities contribute to anthropological and education policy debates about state intervention in religious-based curricula? (As Provided). |
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Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2024/1/01 |