Restructuring the Governing Patterns of Child Education and Welfare

This title is a collection of essays that address the international changes in welfare policy. The book discusses patterns of governing associated with the notions of welfare, care, and education that emergeg during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The issues examined are, among others, the role of international donors and their emphasis on efficiency and lower social subsidies, international migration and its impact on welfare policy inclusions (and exclusions), and national policy change. While representing many different locations and traditions, contributors work within a variety of critical theoretical perspectives that critique our cultural ways of reasoning about the care and education of the child, the role and practice of the state, and the social and cultural construction of citizenship and nationhood.

Table of Contents:
PART I: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PATTERNS OF GOVERNING THE CHILD, THE FAMILY, THEIR CARE AND EDUCATION: AN INTRODUCTION; M.Bloch, T.Popkewitz, K.Holmlund & I.Moqvist - PART II: THE UNIVERSAL CHILD AND FAMILY IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY: THE NATIONAL CONTEXT WITHIN THE GLOBAL CIRCULATION OF POWER RELATIONS - The Ethics of Learning; G.Dahlberg - The Welfare State and the Changed Meaning of Childhood; G.Hallden - Constructing a Parent; I.Moqvist - Children's Rights and the Protection of Childhood Under Changing Conditions in Russia; E.Smirnova & V.Sobkin - PART III: HISTORIES AND HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF THE CHILD, FAMILY, CARE AND SCHOOLING - Remaking the Home and 'Belonging': Changing Patterns of Governing the Child in the Family; T.S.Popkewitz - Hear Ye! Hear Ye! The State, (Dis)ability, Education, and the Child; B.Baker - The Child and the Spectacle of Policy in the Age of the 'Dangerous Individual'; C.Bailey - Early Childhood Education: the Duty of the Family or Institutions?; L.Chalmel - PART IV: YOUNG CHILD, GENDER AND CHANGING GOVERNING PATTERNS - The State and Wage Earning Mothers: Ideology or Reality?; K.Holmlund - Child Welfare in the United States: The Construction of Gendered, Oppositional Discourse(s); G.S.Cannella - Children's Rights and Market Rights in the De-Welfared State; V.Polakow - 'Teenage Parenthood is Bad for Parents and Children': A Feminist Critique of the Restructuring of the Governance of Family, Education and Social Welfare Policies and Practices; M.David - PART V: GLOBALIZING NEW GOVERNING DISCOURSES IN SCHOOLING AS THE ADMINIDTRATION OF THE CHILD, FAMILY, AND EDUCATION - Children and Families in Neocolonial Kenya: Losing Ground Under Neoliberal Global Policies; B.B.Swadener & P.Wachira - Antiracism, IT, Education and the State in Sweden: Why here? Why now?; C.Hallgren & G.Weiner - Educational Policy after Welfare: Reconstructing Patterns of Governance in Argentinean Education; I.Dussel - The Global and the Local: A Feminist and Post-Colonial Analysis of the Restructured Governing Patterns Related to National Imaginaries of Care for Children and Families: Governing the Well-Educated and Cared for Citizen and Family in the USA, Senegal, and Hungary; M.Bloch

About the Author :
MARIANNE BLOCH is Professor of Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is the co-editor of Educational Partnerships (forthcoming from Palgrave, 2003). She is also the editor of Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa and The Ecological Context of Children's Play. - THOMAS POPKEWITZ is Professor of Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also the author or editor of some of the most respected and best-selling books in education including: Foucault's Challenge, Struggling for the Soul, and Educational Knowledge. - KERSTIN HOLMLUND is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Teacher Education, University of Umea, Sweden. - INGEBORG MOQVIST is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Pedagogics, University of Vaxjo, Sweden.

Review :
"A rich and multidimensional portrait of the historical and actual forces that govern the child in various corners of today's world." --Kenneth Hultqvist, Stockholm Institute of Education "Through their new understanding of the embedded systems of cultural reasoning governing the state, this intellectual tool may influence social and educational policy and practice for decades." --Louis F. Miron, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois "This collection performs important conceptual work by crossing and combining fields that are all too often kept apart: child studies, education, and social policy. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches, the authors show convincingly how policymakers in all of these domains use children as a wedge issue in efforts to reform families and restructure welfare states. By ranging across societies and over time, the articles map the impact of cross-cultural exchanges and trace the consolidation of global patterns of governance. Ta