Beyond the competent child : exploring contemporary childhoods in the Nordic welfare societies / Helene Brembeck, Barbro Johansson and Jan Kampmann (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brembeck, Helene, editor.

Johansson, Barbro, editor.

Kampmann, Jan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Scandinavia--Social conditions.

Children.

Child development--Scandinavia.

Child development.

Child welfare--Scandinavia.

Child welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 pages)

Edition:

First e-book edition.

Place of Publication:

Frederiksberg, Denmark : Roskilde Universitetsforlag, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Research Methodology is written for university and college students who are looking for guidelines when writing for a research project. It describes some of the most influential methods in social science and speaks directly to students without any prior knowledge of project work. Written in a simple, straight-forward, and a highly engaging style, the book takes the reader through the essential features of the project work process and guides students in making key decisions that will reduce the anxieties they are likely to experience in their research process. The book also introduces students to the nature of their group work process and provides guidelines on how to work with other students in order to produce good projects. It is intended as a supplementary textbook for courses in research methodology, for bachelor and master's degree students. Highlights of the issues discussed include: structure of projects * research design * the role of theories in research projects * paradigms and philosophy of science * qualitative and quantitative data collection methods and techniques * mixed research methods.

Contents:

Front Matter

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

The background

The construction of Nordicness

The construction of the competent child

The competent child within childhood research

The pedagogical, commercial and political context

Exploring "the competent child"

Framework of the book

Notes

References

Part I. Childhoods in the Welfare System

The History of Nordic Welfare Policies for Children

What is Nordicness? The Roots of the Nordic Welfare States

The Three Historical Phases of the Nordic Welfare State

Origins of the Welfare State and Child Protection

The Nordic Welfare State and its Children

Post-industrial Nordic Welfare States and Children

The Nordic welfare policies for children

Laws and Policies of Child Protection

Policies of Provision: Childcare Policies

Policies on Participation: Laws on Children's Rights and the Implementation of International Agreements

Discussion

Children and Youth as Citizens: symbolic participants or political actors?

Children and youth as citizens in Norway

Children as social participants on "their own terms"

The handball team at "Outer Island" - Just for fun?

Youth Councils - efforts and ambiguities

Internet Café - a case story

Participation - a purpose or a mean?

Constructing the competent participant

Concluding remarks

From Welfare Policy towards Risk Politics?

Finland as a welfare state

The principle of provision

The principle of participation

The principle of protection

Media - the engine of moral panic?

Some Guidelines of the National Policy

Transition of historical formation?

From Present to Past: Discourses of Remembered Childhoods.

Narrating childhood memories

Provision - "We didn't have bread every day"

Participation: childhood with responsibilities

Protection: Play and joy in children's peer groups

"The youth nowadays, they do not have an respect and values…"

Between past and present childhood(s)

Part II. Discursive Constructions of the Competent Child

Societalization of Childhood: New Opportunities? New Demands?

The societalization of childhood

From the 'First' to the 'Second' institutionalization

The First institutionalization

Political-administrative level

The expert system: Childhood research

Pedagogical ideological rhetoric

Pedagogical practice

Second institutionalization

The expert system level: Childhood Research

Institutionalized individualization and individualized institutionalization

New normalization forms

The competent child as compulsive idea

New conditions for generationing practice

Contrasts in the rupture and transformation processes

Childhood and "New Learning" in a Nordi Context

The competent (Nordic) child and the new rhetoric of learning

Elements of the rhetoric of "new" learning

Theoretical approach - governmentality and rhizome structure

The organism-rhetoric - 1900-1960

Taylorism-rhetoric 1960/70-1990s

Education and flexible-systems-rhetoric 1990-

Normalizing and controlling in each of the rhetorics

The three rhetorics as archaeological layers currently

The competent child and the three rhetorics

Analysed in a genealogy perspective or within a rhizome understanding

EU Memorandum on Lifelong Learning year 2000

Danish Kindergarten - curriculum, play and learning

Other arenas for new learning

Final remarks.

Notes

Self-Governance and Incompetence: teachers' construction of "the competent child"

The competent child

Kindergartens and self-governance

The everyday structure and practice - establishing the competent child

Within generational power relations

The kindergarten teachers' representation of the children

Monitoring incompetence

Relating to others - taking care of oneself

Relations to other children

Taking care of oneself

Personality and maturing

The Other in the discourse or other discourses?

The Incompetent Child: representations of bilingual children

Childhood(s) as representation

Into the field

How bilingual comes to mean school incompetence

The exotic child

Children in no man's land

The integrated child

The Danish school

The gendering of fithe bilingual child

A culture and class specific normality

Conclusion

Part III. Children's Agency in Consumer Society

Consumption and Ethics in a Children's Magazine

Kamratposten and the context of the study

The globally concerned child

The child who reveals adult stupidity

The shoplifting child

The vegetarian

The greedy capitalist

The ethics of the child consumer

Adults and Children Debating Sexy Girls' Clothes

Adults' debate about sexy girls' clothes

Some children debating string briefs

String briefs - a controversial garment

A debate full of feelings

Excluded from the gang with or without string briefs - Ambivalences around belonging to a group

Too young for string? - Ambivalences around age and maturity

What's the meaning of bitch? - Ambivalences about expressing femininity

Contradictions among girls reflecting different feminist standpoints.

String briefs for the sake of the smooth surface - Ambivalences about the role of clothes in the aestheticization of the body

Summarizing conclusions

Budget Management of Childhood

Is children's participation always a desirable goal?

From children's needs to children's preferences

Taste, competence and money

Authority to consume

Money as cultural artefacts

Allocation of money in the household

Children's money

Children's expenses

Keeping a budget

Being kept on a budget

Budget management as a new parental tool

Pinocchio Meets Jafar: the wonders of Happy Meal toys

The Radiant but Obedient Child

Increased Pleasures

The Nordic Model

Protection and good health

Together

Part IV. The Voice from Nowhere or Anywhere

The Deterritorialization of the Being Child

First becoming: human becomings

Second becoming: becoming through competence

A reversed becoming: Becoming not-competent

Decentering and becoming

Final and/or first becoming: becoming-other

The reterritorialization of being

Becoming and the academic institutions

Notes on contributors.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 7, 2014).

ISBN:

9788778679475

8778679478

OCLC:

923361178