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Banning ‘suicide’ from the syllabus: We need a more sensitive pedagogic style without having recourse to bans.

Duong-Pedica, Anaïs (2015) Banning ‘suicide’ from the syllabus: We need a more sensitive pedagogic style without having recourse to bans. Impact of Social Sciences Blog (04 Sep 2015). Website.

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Abstract

AQA’s decision to ban references of suicide from textbooks has been met with criticism from the sociology community. Anaïs Duong-Pedica argues it is naïve to assume that young people will never have encountered the idea of suicide prior to their A-levels. Refusing to engage with suicide in the classroom also marginalises students’ own experiences of suicide. Rather, measures should be put in place with and for students to accommodate the teaching and learning of sensitive topics such as suicide.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences
Additional Information: © 2015 The Author(s) CC BY 3.0
Divisions: LSE
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Date Deposited: 27 Mar 2017 09:33
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 19:52
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/70846

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