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Title Beyond the competent child : exploring contemporary childhoods in the Nordic welfare societies / Helene Brembeck, Barbro Johansson and Jan Kampmann (eds.)
Published Frederiksberg : Roskilde University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (337 pages)
Contents ""Front Matter""; ""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""The background""; ""The construction of Nordicness""; ""The construction of the competent child""; ""The competent child within childhood research""; ""The pedagogical, commercial and political context""; ""Exploring “the competent child�""; ""Framework of the book""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Part I. Childhoods in the Welfare System""; ""The History of Nordic Welfare Policies for Children""; ""Introduction""; ""What is Nordicness? The Roots of the Nordic Welfare States""
""The Three Historical Phases of the Nordic Welfare State""""Origins of the Welfare State and Child Protection""; ""The Nordic Welfare State and its Children""; ""Post-industrial Nordic Welfare States and Children""; ""The Nordic welfare policies for children""; ""Laws and Policies of Child Protection""; ""Policies of Provision: Childcare Policies""; ""Policies on Participation: Laws on Children�s Rights and the Implementation of International Agreements""; ""Discussion""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Children and Youth as Citizens: symbolic participants or political actors?""
""Introduction""""Children and youth as citizens in Norway""; ""Children as social participants on “their own terms�""; ""The handball team at “Outer Island� � Just for fun?""; ""Youth Councils � efforts and ambiguities""; ""Internet Café � a case story""; ""Participation � a purpose or a mean?""; ""Constructing the competent participant""; ""Concluding remarks""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""From Welfare Policy towards Risk Politics?""; ""Finland as a welfare state""; ""The principle of provision""; ""The principle of participation""; ""The principle of protection""
""Media � the engine of moral panic?""""Some Guidelines of the National Policy""; ""Transition of historical formation?""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""From Present to Past: Discourses of Remembered Childhoods""; ""Narrating childhood memories""; ""Provision � “We didn�t have bread every day�""; ""Participation: childhood with responsibilities""; ""Protection: Play and joy in children�s peer groups""; ""“The youth nowadays, they do not have an respect and values��""; ""Between past and present childhood(s)""; ""Notes""; ""References""
""Part II. Discursive Constructions of the Competent Child""""Societalization of Childhood: New Opportunities? New Demands?""; ""The societalization of childhood""; ""From the �First� to the �Second� institutionalization""; ""The First institutionalization""; ""Political-administrative level""; ""The expert system: Childhood research""; ""Pedagogical ideological rhetoric""; ""Pedagogical practice""; ""Second institutionalization""; ""Political-administrative level""; ""The expert system level: Childhood Research""; ""Pedagogical ideological rhetoric""; ""Pedagogical practice""
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Children -- Scandinavia
Children -- Scandinavia -- Social conditions
Child welfare -- Scandinavia
Child welfare
Children
Children -- Social conditions
Scandinavia
Form Electronic book
Author Brembeck, Helene
Johansson, Barbro, 1954-
Kampmann, Jan, 1954-
ISBN 8778679478
9788778679475