5. Taking a range of early childhood reading books, as well as early years training texts, evaluate their portrayal of

a) the sexualities of teachers, and what models and assumptions are made how this relates to

b) gendered positions and identifications, alongside

c) that of children. Read and discuss alongside K. Robinson’s (2013).

Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood: The Contradictory Nature of Sexuality and Censorship in Children’s Contemporary Lives (Oxon: Routledge)

and W. Pinar’s (ed.) (2009) Queer Theory in Education. (New York: Routledge.)