1st Edition

Education, Parenting, and Mental Health Care in Europe The Contradictions of Building Autonomous Individuals

Edited By Nicolas Marquis Copyright 2024
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.