Citation

Avgitidou S, Stamou AG. Child. Soc. 2013; 27(3): 174-183.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, National Children's Bureau of the United Kingdom, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1099-0860.2011.00402.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study explores the construction of discourses about childhood in the Greek daily press. It employs the theoretical frameworks of the new sociology of childhood and critical discourse analysis to question which discourses of childhood are constructed in the daily press presenting cases where children were the victimisers in school violent episodes. The study showed that while there are distinct discourses constructed in the texts such as the romantic childhood, the minority group childhood, the homogeneous childhood and the childhood as actor, these tend to co-exist textually.

RESULTS are critically discussed in relation to the positioning of children through everyday practices such as the daily press.

Language: en