ISBN:
9789812871886
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 222 pages)
,
color illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Rethinking Youth Wellbeing : Critical Perspectives
DDC:
305.235/5
Keywords:
Well-being Age factors
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Youth Social conditions
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Youth Psychology
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Youth -- Psychology
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Youth -- Social conditions
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Well-being -- Age factors
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Youth ; Psychology..
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Youth ; Social conditions..
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Well-being ; Age factors
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Abstract:
This volume offers a critical rethinking of the construct of youth wellbeing, stepping back from taken-for-granted and psychologically inflected understandings. Wellbeing has become a catchphrase in educational, health and social care policies internationally, informing a range of school programs and social interventions and increasingly shaping everyday understandings of young people. Drawing on research by established and emerging scholars in Australia, Singapore and the UK, the book critically examines the myriad effects of dominant discourses of wellbeing on the one hand, and the social and cultural dimensions of wellbeing on the other. From diverse methodological and theoretical perspectives, it explores how notions of wellbeing have been mobilized across time and space, in and out of school contexts, and the different inflections and effects of wellbeing discourses are having in education, transnationally and comparatively. The book offers researchers as well as practitioners new perspectives on current approaches to student wellbeing in schools and novel ways of thinking about the wellbeing of young people beyond educational settings. Katie Wright is an Australian Research Council Fellow (DECRA) and lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Her major research interests concern the role and effects of psychological knowledges and therapeutic discourses in social change, cultural life, and educational contexts. Current research projects include a study of public inquiries into childhood maltreatment, a cultural history of adolescence and schooling, and an investigation of past and present understandings of youth mental health and wellbeing. Recent publications include The Rise of the Therapeutic Society: Psychological Knowledge the Contradictions of Cultural Change (2011).Julie McLeod is Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2012-2016). She is Deputy Director of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute and an editor of the journal Gender and Education. Her research areas include gender and education, social inequalities, youth identity, and curriculum history. She is currently working on a history of adolescence and citizenship education (1930s-1970s), a history of school design and pedagogical innovation and a new project is on youth identity and educational inequality since 1950. Recent books include Researching Social Change; Qualitative Approaches (2009), and Making Modern Lives: Subjectivity, Schooling and Social Change (2006).
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Inventing Youth Wellbeing; References; 2 To Be Well Is to Be Not Unwell: The New Battleground Inside Our Children's Heads; Introduction; The Study; The Twenty Five; Catch-22; Boy Interrupted; Being Well; Conclusion; References; 3 Vulnerability and Wellbeing in Educational Settings: The Implications of a Therapeutic Approach to Social Justice; Introduction; The Rise of "Vulnerability" in Concerns About Inequality; Psychologization, Therapeutic Culture and Therapization; From Psychologization to Therapization
Description / Table of Contents:
The Therapization of Social Justice: Psycho-emotional Aspects of InequalityImplications for Educational Practices; Implications for Empowering Approaches to Wellbeing; Conclusions; References; 4 The Limits of Wellbeing; Introduction; Conceptualizing Youth Wellbeing and Mental Health; Conceptualizing Youth; A Relational Approach to Mental Health and Youth; Challenges to Mental Health; Performing Health; Life as a Project; The Precarious Nexus Between Education and Work; Managing Complexity; Concluding Remarks; References
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Constructions of Young Women's Health and Wellbeing in Neoliberal Times: A Case Study of the HPV Vaccination Program in AustraliaIntroduction; Health-as-Wellbeing and the Production of Healthy Citizenship; HPV, HPV Vaccination and the National Vaccination Promotional Campaign; Research Methodology and Theoretical Approach; Theme I: Personal Responsibility and Choice in a Postfeminist Era; Theme II: Risk Reduction and the Production of "Knowledge"; Conclusion; References; 6 Young People, Sexual Pleasure and Sexual Health Services: What Happens When "Good Sex" Is Bad for Your Health?
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionThe Policy Context in England; Study Outline: Young People's Understandings of "Good Sex"; Good Relationship = Good Sex?: Bridging the Gaps Between Research, Policy and Practice; Conclusion: Safe Spaces and Institutional Contexts; References; 7 "I'd Just Cut Myself to Kill the Pain": Seeing Sense in Young Women's Self-Injury; Introduction; Conceptualizing Self-Injury; Method; Childhood Trauma: The Body's Boundaries; Sexual Abuse; Abandonment; Dissociation and Self-Injury; In Search of Control; Conclusion; References
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Rethinking Role-Play for Health and Wellbeing: Creating a Pedagogy of PossibilityIntroduction; Trojan Stories; Deconstructing Health Narratives; Capturing the Discourse at Play; Shifting Genre; Transgressive Talk; Constructing a Pedagogy of Possibility; Conclusion; References; 9 Wellbeing and Schools: Exploring the Normative Dimensions; Introduction; Wellbeing and the Goals of Schooling; Facts, Values and Implicit Normativity; Normative Dimensions of Wellbeing in Schools; Wellbeing in Schools for the National Health Agenda; Wellbeing in Schools for Educational Achievement
Description / Table of Contents:
Schooling and the Socialization of Wellbeing
Note:
Includes index
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