Growing sideways: Re‐articulating ontologies of childhood within/through relationships and sexuality education (RSE)

The unexpected, disorientating educational upheaval brought about by the Covid19 pandemic has unearthed and magnified unsettling educational realities, laying bare the stark educational inequalities that persist within many communities and across contexts along registers of ability, class, gender and race (Dunn et al., 2020). This moment of educational disruption has drawn into sharp relief the ontology of childhood and its links to education. With the need to reconfigure schooling in light of Covid19, children are being (re)constructed as responsible citizens who have the ability to receive complex factual information about the virus— how it spreads and the Accepted: 4 December 2021

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