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The Taming of Education
This book evaluates contemporary approaches to education, with a particular focus on the ways in which assessment shapes the educational experience and influences pupils and students. It adopts a critical approach, arguing that there is a need for students to develop critical thinking skills, be flexible and have the capacity for originality. Education has increasingly come to be seen as a process with qualifications as the output; however, as economies change, attaining advantage increasingly relies on creativity and originality. Unfortunately, in the quest to remove uncertainty from education, creativity and originality are often overlooked; and the result is that education is impoverished...
Children, Family and the State
For anyone studying childhood or families, a consideration of the state may not always seem obvious, yet a good critical knowledge of politics, social policy and social theory is vital to understanding their impacts upon families’ everyday lives. Accessibly written and assuming no prior understanding, it shows how key concepts, including vulnerability, risk, resilience, safeguarding and wellbeing are socially constructed. Carefully designed to support learning, it provides students with clear guidance on how to use what they have read when writing academic assignments alongside questions designed to support the development of critical thinking skills. Covering issues from what the family is within a multicultural society, through issues around poverty, social mobility and life-chances, this book gives students an excellent grounding in matters relating to work with children and families. It features: • ‘using this chapter’ sections showing how the content can be used in assignments; • tips on applying critical thinking to books and articles – and how to make use of such thinking in essays; • further reading.
Taming Childhood?
This book explores the links between recent reports of increasing levels of unhappiness and mental health problems amongst children and young people, and changes within childhood which restrict and reduce opportunities for children to develop and maintain resilience. Although in academic terms children may be viewed as beings, Creasy and Corby posit that there is much to suggest that for parents, practitioners and policy-makers, children are primarily seen as becomings. The book argues that viewing children as becomings, together with the idea that childhood is fraught with danger, contributes to practices and policies which can be seen as making childhood tame. This taming of childhood leads to an impoverished childhood that does not provide the space that children need to grow and develop. Furthermore, Taming Childhood? challenges the idea that young adults are 'snowflakes', unable to cope with everyday pressures. Students and scholars across a range of social science disciplines will find this book of interest.
Children, Family and the State
This book gives students a critical insight into how children and families' everyday lives and experiences are shaped by policy and legislation.
Resilience, Risk and Safeguarding
Resilience, Risk and Safeguarding provides a focused introduction to three key concepts relating to childhood in contemporary UK society and is aimed at students in Higher Education studying childhood or on courses relating to work with children and young people. It explains and clarifies key issues relating to Resilience, Risk and Safeguarding but moves beyond accepting them at face value to provide a critical understanding of how each concept has come to be embedded within contemporary understandings of childhood and children's services. Just what it means to be critical is also explained clearly and concisely.The book provides a clear account of how the social and political context of soc...
Wellbeing, Vulnerability and Life-Chances
Wellbeing, Vulnerability, and Life-chances provides a focused introduction to three key concepts relating to childhood in contemporary UK society aimed at students in Higher Education studying childhood or on courses relating to work with children and young people. It explains and clarifies key issues relating to Wellbeing, Vulnerability, and Life-chances but moves beyond accepting them at face value to provide a critical understanding of how each concept has come to be embedded within contemporary understandings of childhood and childhood services. Just what it means to be critical in Higher Education is also illustrated throughout.The book provides a focused account of how the social and p...
The Family and the State
The Family & the State provides an accessible introduction to the family and to the ways in which the state regulates the lives of children and families. It provides a critical introduction to families and relationships demonstrating how our experiences of families are always shaped by social, cultural and political forces. This includes a consideration of what families are as well as considering how some families come to be seen as failing and come to be classed as troubled. This includes a consideration of approaches to parenting alongside policy approaches that have been taken by the state from the provision of parenting programmes to the Troubled Families programme. The relationship betw...
