ISBN:
9400729715
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (2645 KB, 323 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Children's Well-Being: Indicators and Research, 5
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. The politicization of parenthood
DDC:
306.874
Keywords:
Families
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Family policy
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Parenting
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Erziehung
;
Familienerziehung
;
Familienpolitik
;
Kind
Abstract:
Currently, families are being subjected to increasing public attention. Interest is focussing on their potential strengths and weaknesses in determining how well children do at school. Alongside such human-development oriented expectations, families are also becoming a focus of attention as a resource for human capital in times of economic crises and criticism of the welfare state. In many European countries, parents and children are at the forefront of the welfare state and socio-educational activities in current programs and policies. The current transformation processes in the welfare state are making the relationship between families and the state more dynamic in general, and they are structuring the discourses on the childrearing, education, and child care services in the fields of both public and private responsibility. The introduction of all-day schooling in Germany also has to be viewed in this context. This is gradually changing the traditional half-day structure of German schools and shifting the borders of public and private responsibility on the levels of education, child care, and childrearing institutions. The attention given to parental childrearing and educational responsibility within the context of current national and international debates clearly underlines the fact that issues in private life are increasingly entering the public discourse and becoming subject to attempts at socio-political control. This raises the assumption of an increasing politicization of parenthood in the (post) welfare state that is focusing more and more attention on the structural conditions of gainful employment and child care as well as on the current relations between the genders. This context particularly emphasizes the time and care regimes that decisively determine the practices in daily family life and the utilization of all-day education settings.
Description / Table of Contents:
The Politicization of Parenthood; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; References; Part I: Families and the Welfare State: The Understanding of Responsibility; Family Policy and the Politics of Parenting: From Function to Competence; The Politics of Parenting; Public-Private Boundaries; The Rise of "Parenting"; The Centring of Children's "Well-Being"; The Targeting of Family Practices; Naming and Shaming Families; References; Families, Professionals, and Responsibility; Family Policy, Prevention, and Education; The Family as "Microfield of Power"; Familialization; Defamilialization
Description / Table of Contents:
Social Differences Among Families Facing the Educational SystemFamilialization, Defamilialization, and Diverging Focuses on Different Milieus; Responsibilization and Normalization: The Hidden Agenda; Implications for Professional Practice in the Context of Familialization and Defamilialization; References; Nordic Politicization of Parenthood: Unfolding Hybridization?; Childcare Policy Redesign: Processes and Impact; The Dual Earner/Dual Carer Model and a Contestant; Nordic Differences; Converging or Diverging Childcare Regimes?; Redistributing Care from Mother to Father
Description / Table of Contents:
Redistributing Care from Family to SocietyCounteracting Redistribution of Care; Unfolding Hybridization?; References; Can a Crisis Become an Opportunity? Gender and Care in Contemporary Ireland; Background to the Contemporary Crisis; What Kind of Society Was the Celtic Tiger?; Gender and Care in Ireland; Men, Women, Labour Market, and Care in the Aftermath of the Crash; Is Another Way Possible?; Concluding Remarks; References; Parent-School Relations in England and the USA: Partnership, Problematized; Defining Parent Involvement; School-Based Involvement, Social Class, and Race
Description / Table of Contents:
Barriers to InvolvementFamily-School Partnerships; Partnership as Policy in the USA and England; Partnership, Problematized; Accountability, Responsibilization, and Parent-School Partnership; References; Family and Welfare State Change: Challenges for Education; Analysing the Challenges for Education Going Beyond Popular Rhetoric; Social Trends in Late Modernity and Their Consequences; The New Economy: Market Dynamics Dominating Other Social Logics; The New Insecurity of the Middle Classes or the Colonialization of the Lifeworld by Educational Aspirations
Description / Table of Contents:
The "Brave New World of Work" and Its Ambivalent Impact on the FamilyThe New Welfare State, the Adult Worker Model, and New Mixes of Private and Public Care; Media and Popular Culture as Challenges for Education; The Changing Family: Some Remarks; Conclusions: From Negative Family Rhetoric to New Vistas on the Potential of All-Day Schools; References; The Redistribution of Responsibility Between State and Parents: Family in the Context of Post-Welfare-State Transformation; Steering Instead of Rowing: From Intervention State to Steering State
Description / Table of Contents:
Post-Welfare-State Redistribution of Responsibility
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