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Schooling Scandals!’: Exploring the Necessity of Cultural Disgust

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Abstract

Over the past 30 years, sexuality and schooling has been subject to increasing media coverage that has been central to activating political, educational and popular concerns. Such concerns have circulated through a number of ‘sex scandals’ that include sex education, pupil sexual relations, technology and pornography, sexual relations between teachers and pupils, and teen pregnancies. Such scandals reveal the moral fault-lines that underpin the boundaries between the acceptable and the unacceptable. Hence, educational researchers have tended to explain such scandals by applying the sociological concept of moral panic.1

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Haywood, C. (2013). Schooling Scandals!’: Exploring the Necessity of Cultural Disgust. In: Potts, J., Scannell, J. (eds) The Unacceptable. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137014573_3

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