Heather Piper
Biographic Data
| ID | 231484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Piper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Piper |
| SIGNATURE | PIPER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Education, neoliberalism, and ‘truths’
Touch, Fear, and Child Protection: Immoral Panic and Immoral Crusade
This contrarian article revisits the concept of moral panic as applied by the author in previous writing on intergenerational touch, child abuse, and child protection, in terms of its current utility in analysing related policy and practice. Engagement in the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Seminar Series, Revisiting Moral Panics prompted a reconsideration of the author's deployment of the concept, supported by some historic and more …
Fortress Education
Sports coaches as ‘dangerous individuals’—practice as governmentality
Recent concern surrounding sports coaches' interaction with young people has reflected a fundamental change in the way coaches and others regard the role of sports. In this paper, we consider the identification and definition of the contemporary sports coach (whether acting in a professional or volunteer capacity) as, in Foucault's term, a ‘dangerous individual’. We suggest that the mainstream discourse of child protection and safeguarding, vario…
Interrupting the Immoral Panic around Child Abuse and Professional Touch: Thinking About Impact
This paper explores how critical research might impact on social practice. Over the past decade, Piper and colleagues have identified the negative implications of the moral panic around child abuse in constraining intergenerational relationships and in diminishing the ability and commitment of adults acting in loco parentis to benefit young people in education, childcare, and sports coaching. Achieving impact in this area is complex and challengi…
Managerial Discourse, Child Safeguarding, and the Elimination of Virtue from In Loco Parentis Relationships: An Example from Music Education
In response to high-profile cases of child abuse and heightened public concern, the safeguarding agenda in England seeks to reform relationships between in loco parentis adults and children or young people across a range of settings, applying managerial methods to regulating conduct. Referring to material relevant to many such settings, this article considers the way in which the application of managerialism has imposed particular approaches to m…
Changing the Discourse of Education
Hands off! The practice and politics of touch in physical education and sports coaching
As the editorial group for this special edition of Sport, Education and Society, we are very grateful to the Editorial Board for the opportunity offered to highlight work we consider to be substant
Olympic Dreams and Social Realities: A Foucauldian Analysis of Legacy and Mass Participation
Focussing on the London 2012 legacy claim relating to increased activity levels and sports participation, the paper discusses a range of factors which appear to militate against its achievement. Utilising a Foucauldian theoretical framework, we discuss how some of these operate at the conceptual and linguistic level, while others relate to governmental processes, and still another to the distinction between active engagement with the Games as car…
Child abuse, child protection, and defensive ‘touch’ in PE teaching and sports coaching
This text introduces recently completed research on ‘no touch’ sports coaching, by placing it in a broader social context which problematises the way child abuse and child protection (or safeguarding) are conceived and discussed in terms of policy and practice. It also provides a brief indicative summary of the research findings and offers a discussion of moral panic, risk society and worst case thinking, before drawing on Foucault's work on gove…
Safeguarding’ sports coaching: Foucault, genealogy and critique
This paper offers a genealogical account of safeguarding in sport. Drawing specifically on Foucault's work, it examines the ‘politics of touch’ in relation to the social and historical formation of child protection policy in sports coaching. While the analysis has some resonance with the context of coaching as a whole, for illustrative purposes it focuses principally upon the sport of swimming. Our analysis demonstrates how the linked signifiers …
Researching Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in Schools: The Need for a Narrative Approach
Sports coaching in risk society: No touch! No trust
This paper is informed by a UK based Economic and Social Research Council funded research project which developed and deployed a case-study approach to issues of touch between children and professionals in schools and childcare. Outcomes from these settings are referred to, but the focus here is shifted to touch in sports coaching and its distinctive contextual and institutional characteristics. We consider the broader context of no touch coachin…
Muslim women and sport
Researching Barriers to Cultural Change for those in Loco Parentis
Drawing on recent research on professional fears around touching children, and also on the consequences for those professionals who find themselves the subject of a false allegation of abuse, this paper considers some of the barriers to changing the 'parenting' culture of those in loco parentis. It consists of three linked sections. The first sets the scene by describing briefly the research relating to 'touch' and to 'false allegation' as well a…
The Link between Animal Abuse and Human Violence
2010). The Link between Animal Abuse and Human Violence. Anthrozoos: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 297-300
All Teachers Are Vulnerable but Especially Gay Teachers: Using Composite Fictions to Protect Research Participants in Pupil-Teacher Sex-Related Research
The ways in which the media searches out, depicts, and writes about teacher-pupil sex-related topics have implications both for researchers working in the area and, sometimes more seriously, for the people who participate in and contribute to that research as respondents. In this article, the authors discuss, and provide an example of, the composite fiction strategy they developed and decided to adopt primarily for purposes of protection when wri…
Researching sex and lies in the classroom allegations of sexual misconduct in schools: Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in Schools
The Anglophone world is gripped by a moral panic centred on child abuse in general and fear of the paedophile in particular. Evidence suggests an alarming rise in the number of false allegations of sexual abuse being made against teachers, and demonstrates that the fallout from being falsely accused is far-reaching and sometimes tragic. Many people in this position cannot sustain family relationships, have breakdowns, and are often unable to retu…
The Power and Promulgation of the Claimed Links between Human and Animal Abuse
In this article the authors identify and discuss what they consider to be some of the underlying arguments and approaches currently promulgated in teaching and training in relation to abuse. Their focus is the assumption that all violence is linked, especially the belief that those who harm animals will harm people. This under-theorised but overtly applied phenomenon, referred to as ‘the links’, is increasingly evident on both sides of the Atlant…
Animal Abuse as a Sentinel for Human Violence: A Critique
It has been suggested that acts of violence against human and nonhuman animals share commonalities, and that animal abuse is a sentinel for current or future violence toward people. The popular and professional acceptance of strong connections between types of violence is beginning to be used to justify social work interventions and to influence legal decision making, and so requires greater scrutiny. Examination of the limited pool of empirical …
Can Liberal Education Make a Comeback? The Case of “Relational Touch” at Summerhill School
This article draws on data from a single element of a larger project 1 which focused on the issue of “touching” between education and child care professionals and children in a number of settings. This case study looks at a school once internationally renowned as the exemplar of “free” schooling. The authors consider how the school works as a community, how it impacts on its students, and how it copes with the strictures of the audit culture in r…
Seeing Voices and Hearing Pictures: Image as discourse and the framing of image-based research
This paper addresses an increasingly popular technique for eliciting student “voice” through the analysis of young people's images as a medium of expression, focusing in particular on photography. Of course, there has been considerable critical interrogation of student voice activities in the recent past and the complexities and challenges associated with the analysis of images is longstanding. Where critical scrutiny is less apparent, however, i…
Reflexivity, the Picturing of Selves, the Forging of Method
This article addresses alternative models for a reflexive methodology and examines the ways in which doctoral students have appropriated these texts in their theses. It then considers the indeterminate qualities of those appropriations. The paper offers a new account of reflexivity as "picturing," drawing analogies from the interpretation of two very different pictures, by Velázquez and Tshibumba. It concludes with a more open and fluid account o…
Identity and Citizenship: Some Contradictions in Practice
We argue that many current forms of anti-racist and multicultural teaching, whilst well-intentioned, nevertheless serve to ‘fix’ identities on children in ways which inhibit their agency and reinforce stereotypes. In our exploration of the issues we employ a wide range of theoretical ideas
Citizenship Education And The Monarchy: Examining The Contradictions
This paper addresses the teaching of citizenship in schools and focuses on the monarchy as an example of one issue often ignored within curriculum discourse. We argue that to conflate subjecthood and citizenship in unacknowledged ways may serve to perpetuate the status quo and is potentially unhelpful to the development of young people's critical thinking
Reflexivity, the Picturing of Selves, the Forging of Method
This article addresses alternative models for a reflexive methodology and examines the ways in which doctoral students have appropriated these texts in their theses. It then considers the indeterminate qualities of those appropriations. The paper offers a new account of reflexivity as "picturing," drawing analogies from the interpretation of two very different pictures, by Velázquez and Tshibumba. It concludes with a more open and fluid account o…
All Teachers Are Vulnerable but Especially Gay Teachers: Using Composite Fictions to Protect Research Participants in Pupil-Teacher Sex-Related Research
The ways in which the media searches out, depicts, and writes about teacher-pupil sex-related topics have implications both for researchers working in the area and, sometimes more seriously, for the people who participate in and contribute to that research as respondents. In this article, the authors discuss, and provide an example of, the composite fiction strategy they developed and decided to adopt primarily for purposes of protection when wri…
Seeing Voices and Hearing Pictures: Image as discourse and the framing of image-based research
This paper addresses an increasingly popular technique for eliciting student “voice” through the analysis of young people's images as a medium of expression, focusing in particular on photography. Of course, there has been considerable critical interrogation of student voice activities in the recent past and the complexities and challenges associated with the analysis of images is longstanding. Where critical scrutiny is less apparent, however, i…
Touch’ in educational and child care settings: Dilemmas and responses
This article considers the touching, or rather, not touching, of children and young people in professional settings. Some have argued that many schools and other childcare environments are becoming ‘no touch’ zones. Formal guidelines in the UK are centrally concerned with ‘child protection’ issues, and ‘force and control’, and as such appear more reactive than proactive. From the authors' exploratory studies it has emerged that this is an area wh…
Child abuse, child protection, and defensive ‘touch’ in PE teaching and sports coaching
This text introduces recently completed research on ‘no touch’ sports coaching, by placing it in a broader social context which problematises the way child abuse and child protection (or safeguarding) are conceived and discussed in terms of policy and practice. It also provides a brief indicative summary of the research findings and offers a discussion of moral panic, risk society and worst case thinking, before drawing on Foucault's work on gove…
Sports coaches as ‘dangerous individuals’—practice as governmentality
Recent concern surrounding sports coaches' interaction with young people has reflected a fundamental change in the way coaches and others regard the role of sports. In this paper, we consider the identification and definition of the contemporary sports coach (whether acting in a professional or volunteer capacity) as, in Foucault's term, a ‘dangerous individual’. We suggest that the mainstream discourse of child protection and safeguarding, vario…
Hands off! The practice and politics of touch in physical education and sports coaching
As the editorial group for this special edition of Sport, Education and Society, we are very grateful to the Editorial Board for the opportunity offered to highlight work we consider to be substant
Sports coaching in risk society: No touch! No trust
This paper is informed by a UK based Economic and Social Research Council funded research project which developed and deployed a case-study approach to issues of touch between children and professionals in schools and childcare. Outcomes from these settings are referred to, but the focus here is shifted to touch in sports coaching and its distinctive contextual and institutional characteristics. We consider the broader context of no touch coachin…
Animal Abuse as a Sentinel for Human Violence: A Critique
It has been suggested that acts of violence against human and nonhuman animals share commonalities, and that animal abuse is a sentinel for current or future violence toward people. The popular and professional acceptance of strong connections between types of violence is beginning to be used to justify social work interventions and to influence legal decision making, and so requires greater scrutiny. Examination of the limited pool of empirical …
Touch, Fear, and Child Protection: Immoral Panic and Immoral Crusade
This contrarian article revisits the concept of moral panic as applied by the author in previous writing on intergenerational touch, child abuse, and child protection, in terms of its current utility in analysing related policy and practice. Engagement in the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Seminar Series, Revisiting Moral Panics prompted a reconsideration of the author's deployment of the concept, supported by some historic and more …
Safeguarding’ sports coaching: Foucault, genealogy and critique
This paper offers a genealogical account of safeguarding in sport. Drawing specifically on Foucault's work, it examines the ‘politics of touch’ in relation to the social and historical formation of child protection policy in sports coaching. While the analysis has some resonance with the context of coaching as a whole, for illustrative purposes it focuses principally upon the sport of swimming. Our analysis demonstrates how the linked signifiers …
Researching Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in Schools: The Need for a Narrative Approach
Can Liberal Education Make a Comeback? The Case of “Relational Touch” at Summerhill School
This article draws on data from a single element of a larger project 1 which focused on the issue of “touching” between education and child care professionals and children in a number of settings. This case study looks at a school once internationally renowned as the exemplar of “free” schooling. The authors consider how the school works as a community, how it impacts on its students, and how it copes with the strictures of the audit culture in r…
Identity and Citizenship: Some Contradictions in Practice
We argue that many current forms of anti-racist and multicultural teaching, whilst well-intentioned, nevertheless serve to ‘fix’ identities on children in ways which inhibit their agency and reinforce stereotypes. In our exploration of the issues we employ a wide range of theoretical ideas
The Link between Animal Abuse and Human Violence
2010). The Link between Animal Abuse and Human Violence. Anthrozoos: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 297-300
Children and young people harming animals: Intervention through PSHE
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) commissioned a project to explore issues around children harming animals. More than 1000 young people and 100 adults engaged with the research, which initially focussed on the way children and young people themselves make sense of harm towards animals, and then extended into a range of other areas. A critical evaluation of the literature informed a research design that included: q…
Managerial Discourse, Child Safeguarding, and the Elimination of Virtue from In Loco Parentis Relationships: An Example from Music Education
In response to high-profile cases of child abuse and heightened public concern, the safeguarding agenda in England seeks to reform relationships between in loco parentis adults and children or young people across a range of settings, applying managerial methods to regulating conduct. Referring to material relevant to many such settings, this article considers the way in which the application of managerialism has imposed particular approaches to m…
Olympic Dreams and Social Realities: A Foucauldian Analysis of Legacy and Mass Participation
Focussing on the London 2012 legacy claim relating to increased activity levels and sports participation, the paper discusses a range of factors which appear to militate against its achievement. Utilising a Foucauldian theoretical framework, we discuss how some of these operate at the conceptual and linguistic level, while others relate to governmental processes, and still another to the distinction between active engagement with the Games as car…
Police and minority ethnic population relations: Reflections on research in a low-density area
Police and minority ethnic population relations: Reflections on research in a low-density area
Framing and reframing fears of disorderly youth
A practice placement undertaken by social work students of Manchester Metropolitan University gave them an opportunity to engage in anti-discriminatory practice when confronted by negative statements that linked a neighbourhood's young people to local crime and disorder. This paper examines the way this was undertaken and also places widely held fears about youth incivility into a wider political context. It is suggested that commonplace opinions…
Citizenship Education And The Monarchy: Examining The Contradictions
This paper addresses the teaching of citizenship in schools and focuses on the monarchy as an example of one issue often ignored within curriculum discourse. We argue that to conflate subjecthood and citizenship in unacknowledged ways may serve to perpetuate the status quo and is potentially unhelpful to the development of young people's critical thinking
Children and young people harming animals: Intervention through PSHE
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) commissioned a project to explore issues around children harming animals. More than 1000 young people and 100 adults engaged with the research, which initially focussed on the way children and young people themselves make sense of harm towards animals, and then extended into a range of other areas. A critical evaluation of the literature informed a research design that included: q…
Touch’ in educational and child care settings: Dilemmas and responses
This article considers the touching, or rather, not touching, of children and young people in professional settings. Some have argued that many schools and other childcare environments are becoming ‘no touch’ zones. Formal guidelines in the UK are centrally concerned with ‘child protection’ issues, and ‘force and control’, and as such appear more reactive than proactive. From the authors' exploratory studies it has emerged that this is an area wh…
Globalisation and its Impact Upon Education: Prospects and challenges
Book reviewed in this article: Education in Transition: international perspectives on the politics and processes of change R. G riffin (Ed) Education in a Globalized World: the connectivity of economic power, technology and knowledge N. S tromquist Citizenship and the Challenge of Global Education A. Osler & K. Vincent
Identity and Citizenship: Some Contradictions in Practice
We argue that many current forms of anti-racist and multicultural teaching, whilst well-intentioned, nevertheless serve to ‘fix’ identities on children in ways which inhibit their agency and reinforce stereotypes. In our exploration of the issues we employ a wide range of theoretical ideas
Seeing Voices and Hearing Pictures: Image as discourse and the framing of image-based research
This paper addresses an increasingly popular technique for eliciting student “voice” through the analysis of young people's images as a medium of expression, focusing in particular on photography. Of course, there has been considerable critical interrogation of student voice activities in the recent past and the complexities and challenges associated with the analysis of images is longstanding. Where critical scrutiny is less apparent, however, i…
Reflexivity, the Picturing of Selves, the Forging of Method
This article addresses alternative models for a reflexive methodology and examines the ways in which doctoral students have appropriated these texts in their theses. It then considers the indeterminate qualities of those appropriations. The paper offers a new account of reflexivity as "picturing," drawing analogies from the interpretation of two very different pictures, by Velázquez and Tshibumba. It concludes with a more open and fluid account o…
Can Liberal Education Make a Comeback? The Case of “Relational Touch” at Summerhill School
This article draws on data from a single element of a larger project 1 which focused on the issue of “touching” between education and child care professionals and children in a number of settings. This case study looks at a school once internationally renowned as the exemplar of “free” schooling. The authors consider how the school works as a community, how it impacts on its students, and how it copes with the strictures of the audit culture in r…
Researching sex and lies in the classroom allegations of sexual misconduct in schools: Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in Schools
The Anglophone world is gripped by a moral panic centred on child abuse in general and fear of the paedophile in particular. Evidence suggests an alarming rise in the number of false allegations of sexual abuse being made against teachers, and demonstrates that the fallout from being falsely accused is far-reaching and sometimes tragic. Many people in this position cannot sustain family relationships, have breakdowns, and are often unable to retu…
The Power and Promulgation of the Claimed Links between Human and Animal Abuse
In this article the authors identify and discuss what they consider to be some of the underlying arguments and approaches currently promulgated in teaching and training in relation to abuse. Their focus is the assumption that all violence is linked, especially the belief that those who harm animals will harm people. This under-theorised but overtly applied phenomenon, referred to as ‘the links’, is increasingly evident on both sides of the Atlant…
Animal Abuse as a Sentinel for Human Violence: A Critique
It has been suggested that acts of violence against human and nonhuman animals share commonalities, and that animal abuse is a sentinel for current or future violence toward people. The popular and professional acceptance of strong connections between types of violence is beginning to be used to justify social work interventions and to influence legal decision making, and so requires greater scrutiny. Examination of the limited pool of empirical …
Researching Barriers to Cultural Change for those in Loco Parentis
Drawing on recent research on professional fears around touching children, and also on the consequences for those professionals who find themselves the subject of a false allegation of abuse, this paper considers some of the barriers to changing the 'parenting' culture of those in loco parentis. It consists of three linked sections. The first sets the scene by describing briefly the research relating to 'touch' and to 'false allegation' as well a…
The Link between Animal Abuse and Human Violence
2010). The Link between Animal Abuse and Human Violence. Anthrozoos: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 297-300
All Teachers Are Vulnerable but Especially Gay Teachers: Using Composite Fictions to Protect Research Participants in Pupil-Teacher Sex-Related Research
The ways in which the media searches out, depicts, and writes about teacher-pupil sex-related topics have implications both for researchers working in the area and, sometimes more seriously, for the people who participate in and contribute to that research as respondents. In this article, the authors discuss, and provide an example of, the composite fiction strategy they developed and decided to adopt primarily for purposes of protection when wri…
Researching Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in Schools: The Need for a Narrative Approach
Sports coaching in risk society: No touch! No trust
This paper is informed by a UK based Economic and Social Research Council funded research project which developed and deployed a case-study approach to issues of touch between children and professionals in schools and childcare. Outcomes from these settings are referred to, but the focus here is shifted to touch in sports coaching and its distinctive contextual and institutional characteristics. We consider the broader context of no touch coachin…
Muslim women and sport
Child abuse, child protection, and defensive ‘touch’ in PE teaching and sports coaching
This text introduces recently completed research on ‘no touch’ sports coaching, by placing it in a broader social context which problematises the way child abuse and child protection (or safeguarding) are conceived and discussed in terms of policy and practice. It also provides a brief indicative summary of the research findings and offers a discussion of moral panic, risk society and worst case thinking, before drawing on Foucault's work on gove…
Safeguarding’ sports coaching: Foucault, genealogy and critique
This paper offers a genealogical account of safeguarding in sport. Drawing specifically on Foucault's work, it examines the ‘politics of touch’ in relation to the social and historical formation of child protection policy in sports coaching. While the analysis has some resonance with the context of coaching as a whole, for illustrative purposes it focuses principally upon the sport of swimming. Our analysis demonstrates how the linked signifiers …
Interrupting the Immoral Panic around Child Abuse and Professional Touch: Thinking About Impact
This paper explores how critical research might impact on social practice. Over the past decade, Piper and colleagues have identified the negative implications of the moral panic around child abuse in constraining intergenerational relationships and in diminishing the ability and commitment of adults acting in loco parentis to benefit young people in education, childcare, and sports coaching. Achieving impact in this area is complex and challengi…
Managerial Discourse, Child Safeguarding, and the Elimination of Virtue from In Loco Parentis Relationships: An Example from Music Education
In response to high-profile cases of child abuse and heightened public concern, the safeguarding agenda in England seeks to reform relationships between in loco parentis adults and children or young people across a range of settings, applying managerial methods to regulating conduct. Referring to material relevant to many such settings, this article considers the way in which the application of managerialism has imposed particular approaches to m…
Changing the Discourse of Education
Hands off! The practice and politics of touch in physical education and sports coaching
As the editorial group for this special edition of Sport, Education and Society, we are very grateful to the Editorial Board for the opportunity offered to highlight work we consider to be substant
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