Sex, Death, and the Education of Children: Our Passion for Ignorance in the Age of AIDS
Author:   Jonathan G. Silin ,  Madeleine R. Grumet ,  Peter M. Taubman
Publisher:   Teachers' College Press
Volume:   No 1
ISBN:  

9780807734056


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   15 June 1995
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained


Our Price $57.95 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Sex, Death, and the Education of Children: Our Passion for Ignorance in the Age of AIDS


Add your own review!

Overview

In this work on AIDS and the ways in which we do not educate children about it, Silin has created a literary register that can comprehend the many languages of his life: language for what he has learned about the education of young children; language for what he has learned about love and sexuality as a gay man; and, language for what he has learned about life and death in the age of AIDS. Refusing what he calls our """"passion for ignorance"""", Silin wrenches what he knows out of the categories of discretion and avoidance that confine knowledge. He shows us how the early childhood curriculum deploys a false altruism, pretending to protect children from what adults are afraid to talk about. He shows us how we cultivate ignorance in children and in each other by refusing to hear and respond to what they and we already know.

Full Product Details

Author:   Jonathan G. Silin ,  Madeleine R. Grumet ,  Peter M. Taubman
Publisher:   Teachers' College Press
Imprint:   Teachers' College Press
Volume:   No 1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.365kg
ISBN:  

9780807734056


ISBN 10:   0807734055
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   15 June 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

HIV/AIDS - the Politics of an Epidemic; Responding to Children in Time; HIV/AIDS Education - Toward a Collaborative Curriculum; Developmentalism and the Aims of Education; Contours of Ignorance; Curricular Languages - Queerying Feminists; How Do We Know? and Other Questions of the Closet; The Politics of Identity and the Differences Inside Me.

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

MRG2025CC

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
 Shopping cart
Mailing List

 

Sign up now