Abstract
Sex education presents a major dilemma for state-minority relations, reflecting a conflict between basic rights to education and religious freedom. In this comparative ethnography of informal sex education among ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim) in Israel and England, we frame the critical difference between “age-appropriate” and “life-stage” (marriage and childbirth) models of sex education. Conceptualizing these competing approaches as disputes over “knowledge responsibility,” we call for more context-specific understandings of how educational responsibilities are envisioned in increasingly diverse populations.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 5-20 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Anthropology and Education Quarterly |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2021 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2020 The Authors. Anthropology & Education Quarterly published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Anthropological Association
Keywords
- Gender
- Judaism
- religion
- sex education
- state
