The child in the world, the world in the child : education and the configuration of a universal, modern, and globalized childhood / edited by Marianne N. Bloch ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloch, Marianne N.

Series:

Critical cultural studies of childhood

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative education.

Education, Elementary--Standards--Cross-cultural studies.

Education, Elementary.

Curriculum change--Cross-cultural studies.

Curriculum change.

Education and state--Cross-cultural studies.

Education and state.

Education and globalization--Cross-cultural studies.

Education and globalization.

Education, Elementary--Standards.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 239 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

In this cutting-edge and compelling collection, contributors look at the current spread of universal conceptions concerning young children, families, and schools for the modern nation across the globe. They examine the way these discourses, which purport to describe everyone in a scientific and neutral way, actually create mechanisms through which children are divided and excluded. Authors employ post-structuralist, postcolonial, and feminist theoretical frameworks as they examine the relations between global and local dynamics in the spread of language concerned with modern, universal standards for all in a diverse group of areas around the world, including South America, Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Contents:

Foreword: Hopes of Inclusion/Recognition and Productions of Difference / Thomas S. Popkewitz ix

Part 1 The Child in the World

Introduction: Education and the Global/Local Construction of the Universal, Modern, and Globalized Child, School, and Nation / Marianne N. Bloch, Devorah Kennedy, Theodora Lightfoot, Dar Weyenberg 3

Part 2 Governing the Universal, Modern Child and Family

Chapter 1 Educational Theories and Pedagogies as Technologies of Power/Knowledge: Educating the Young Child as a Citizen of an Imagined Nation and World / Marianne N. Bloch 21

Chapter 2 Configuring the Jewish Child: Intersections of Pedagogy and Cultural Identity / Devorah Kennedy 43

Chapter 3 Problematizing Asian American Children as "Model" Students / Susan Matoba Adler 63

Part 3 Governing the Modern and Normal Child through Pedagogical Discourses

Chapter 4 Language Learning, Language Teaching, and the Construction of the Young Child / Theodora Lightfoot 81

Chapter 5 The Quest for Health in Different Timespaces / Dar Weyenberg 99

Chapter 6 How Might Teachers of Young Children Interrogate Images as Visual Culture? / Nancy Pauly 118

Chapter 7 The System of Reasoning the Child in Contemporary Japan / Jie Qi 143

Chapter 8 The Specter of the Abnormal Haunts the Child: A Historical Study of the "Problem-child" in Brazilian Educational Discourses / Ana Laura Godinho Lima 157

Part 4 Governing the Modern and Post-Modern Citizen and Nation through Universal Reforms in Education

Chapter 9 No Child Left Behind? The Specters of Almsgiving and Atonement: A Short Genealogy of the Saving Grace of U.S. Education / Karen S. Pena 177

Chapter 10 Illusions of Social Democracy: Early Childhood Educational Voucher Policies in Taiwan / I-Fang Lee 195

Chapter 11 The Foundation Stage Child in a Shifting Sea: A History of the Present of the United Kingdom's Education Act 2002 / Ruth L. Peach 212.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1403974977

1403974985

OCLC:

65538759

Publisher Number:

9781403974976

9781403974983

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