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‘Safeguarding’, Child Protection and Implicit Knowledge

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Much of children’s knowledge of the world comes not from formal education but from implicit, everyday interactions between the generations, within the family and the community. This chapter discusses how the need to protect and socialise children is gradually devolving from a generalised generational responsibility into a bureaucratic function that seeks to distance children from the adult world, encapsulated in the language of ‘safeguarding’. In this regard, the dynamic interaction between generations is rationalised, and flattened out.

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Bristow, J. (2016). ‘Safeguarding’, Child Protection and Implicit Knowledge. In: The Sociology of Generations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60136-0_4

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