1st Edition
From Children's Services to Children's Spaces Public Policy, Children and Childhood
212 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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More than ever before, children are apparently being recognised as social actors and citizens. Yet public policy often involves increased control and surveillance of children. This book explores the contradiction. It shows how different ways of thinking about children produce different childhoods, different public provisions for children (including schools) and different ways of working with... Read more
1. In Praise of Many Possibilities 2. The Need for some Theory 3. Children - who do we Think they Are? 4. A Case Study: the Dominant Discourse Revealed in Four English Policy Documents 5. An Alternative Discourse 6. Children's Culture and some other Possibilities 7. Pedagogues and Pedagogy 8. The Case of Sweden 9. Unfinished Business
Biography
Moss, Peter; Petrie, Pat
