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Sex-crazed teens: challenging the hype

Amid some exaggerated concern about the ‘sexualisation’ of girls, Joel Best and Katherine Bogle’s book ‘Kids Gone Wild’ offers a good dose of sanity and critical thinking.

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This entry was posted in Childhood, Children Youth and Media, media effects, Sex and tagged Joel Best, sexualisation on April 23, 2015 by dbuckingham2015.

Cultural capital: arts policy and education

What went wrong with New Labour’s cultural policy? Robert Hewison’s book ‘Cultural Capital’ – reviewed here – provides some of the answers.

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This entry was posted in Creativity, Policy, politics and tagged New Labour, Robert Hewison on April 23, 2015 by dbuckingham2015.

Eh oh! Recycling Teletubbies

 

How can we understand the increasing recycling of children’s television? A few thoughts on the BBC’s return to Teletubby land.

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This entry was posted in children's television, economics and tagged Teletubbies on April 23, 2015 by dbuckingham2015.

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