The contributors look at universalizing discourses concerning young children across the globe, which purport to describe everyone in a scientific and neutral way, but actually create mechanisms through which children are divided and excluded. The contributors to this book employ post-structuralist, postcolonial, and feminist theoretical frameworks.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; E. Swadener, G. Cannella & M. Bloch Foreword; T. S. Popkewitz PART I: THE CHILD IN THE WORLD/THE WORLD IN THE CHILD Education and the Configuration of a Universal, Modern, and Globalized Childhood: An Introduction; M. Bloch, D. Kennedy, T. Lightfoot & D. Weyenberg PART II: GOVERNING THE UNIVERSA, MODERN CHILD AND FAMILY Educational Theories and Pedagogies as Technologies of Power/Knowledge: Educating the Young Child as a Citizen of an Imagined Nation and World; M. Bloch Configuring the Jewish Child: Intersections of Pedagogy and Cultural Identity; D. Kennedy The Construction of the Asian American Children as "Model" Students; S. M. Adler PART III: GOVERNING THE MODERN AND NORMAL CHILD THROUGH PEDAGOGICAL DISCOURSES Constructing the Young Child as a "Productive Citizen" through Language Acquisition Theory; T. Lightfoot The Quest for Health in Different Timespaces; D. Weyenberg Visual Images and the Construction of Childhood Cultural Stories; N. Pauly The System of Reasoning the Child in Contemporary Japan; J. Qi The Specter of Irregularity Haunts the Child: A Historical Study of the "Problem-Child" in Brazilian Educational Discourses; A. L. G. Lima PART IV: GOVERNING THE MODERN AND POST-MODERN CITIZEN AND NATION THROUGH UNIVERSAL REFORMS IN EDUCATION No Child Left Behind? The Specters of Almsgiving and Atonement: A Short Genealogy of the Saving Grace of US Education; K. S. Pena Illusions of Social Democracy: Early Childhood Educational Voucher Policies in Taiwan; I. F. Lee The Foundation Stage Child in a Shifting Sea: A History of the Present of the United Kingdom's Education Act 2002; R. L. Peach
