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Education, Parenting, and Mental Health Care in Europe The Contradictions of Building Autonomous Individuals
This edited collection investigates, from a sociological perspective, what it means to create an autonomous individual through a novel exploration of three central fields of sociology: education, mental health care, and parenting.
By linking these three aspects through their contribution to the building of an autonomous child, the volume analyses the intersecting roles of parent, teacher, and caregiver as well as the transformations in identities of child, pupil, and patient to understand the construction and repair of autonomy. Using a comparison of various case studies across Scandinavian, English-speaking, and French-speaking countries, chapters explore why personal autonomy is so important in many societies and demonstrate the conceptual and practical challenges the idea brings. Ultimately, the book provides an innovative contribution to the fields of educational sociology and the philosophy of education, as well as parenting studies and the sociology of mental health by making the case for taking autonomy, and its paradoxes, seriously.
This cross-disciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students working in sociology and the philosophy of education, parenting, mental health, and child development more broadly. Those with a focus on the study of individualistic societies will also find the volume of use.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
Introduction: Puzzling Autonomy
Nicolas Marquis and Emmanuelle Lenel
Part 1: Autonomy in the Brain? (Neuro)Cognitive Sciences and Changing Representations of the Child and the Pupil
1. Children as Individuals and Their Disorders in the Ages of Autonomy
Alain Ehrenberg and Nicolas Marquis
2. Cognitive Science and the Building of an "Autonomous Pupil": Scientific Controversies Surrounding Autonomy in the Field of Education
Stanislas Morel
3. Children's Well-Being and Teachers' Benevolence as the Road to Higher Performance?: Cognitive Neuroscience and Montessori in Preschools
Véronique Degraef, Emmanuelle Lenel and Nicolas Marquis
Part 2: Autonomy Under (Self-)Control?: Social and Emotional (In)Competencies
4. Theorising Strengthened Demands for Social Skills, Emotional Control, and Autonomy
Sune Qvotrup Jensen and Annick Prieur
5. Balanced Emotional Expressions: Learning to Be an Autonomous Social Being
Eva Gulløv
6. Parental Coaching and the “Happy Medium” Between Laxism and Authoritarianism: Experts in Common Sense
Nicolas Marquis and Solène Mignon
Part 3: Shaping Autonomy Makers?: Paradoxes in Institutional Guidance for Parents and Teachers
7. From Educating Mothers to Neuroparenting: Ideas and Controversies in Parenting Issues
Claude Martin
8. Pregnancy After ‘a Choice to Drink’: Meanings of Autonomy in England’s Policies on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Ellie Lee
9. Doing Good Parenthood in Early Childhood Education and Care
Allan Westerling
10. How Education Demands Autonomy on the Part of Pupils: A Sociological Approach to a Paradox
Heloïse Durler
Part 4: Diagnosing the Effects of Autonomy?: Transformations of Mental Health Suffering in Liberal-Individualistic Societies
11. Antidepressant Medication as Identity Construction: And So What?
Anders Petersen
12. Empowerment, at the Heart of Psychedelic Care: To Be or Not to Be, That Is Not the Question
Fanny Charrasse and Nicolas Marquis
13. Mental Health, Higher Education and Regulatory Capitalism: Steering not Rowing
Ashley Frawley, Chloe Wakeham, and Ken McLaughlin
14. Voice-Hearers and Highly Sensitive People Reversing the Stigma of Madness: Dissolving, Stating or Valuing the Difference?
Nicolas Marquis, Alex Maignan, and Chloé Daelman
Afterword: Beyond Autonomy?
Nicolas Marquis
Biography
Nicolas Marquis is an ERC Starting Grantee and Professor in Sociology and Methodology, Université UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels, Belgium.
