Does Every Child Matter?

Understanding New Labour's Social Reforms

Catherine A. Simon, Stephen Ward (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

142 Seiten

2010
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-49579-0 (ISBN)

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Every Child Matters represents the most radical change to education and welfare provision in almost two decades. This book moves beyond a descriptive ‘how to’ framework to examine the underlying political and social aims of this policy agenda.

The authors’ analysis reveals that Every Child Matters represents the Government’s attempt to codify perceived risks in society and to formulate their responses. In doing so, children are made the strategic focus of much wider social policy reform, the effects of which are first felt in education. Does Every Child Matter? explores the ramifications of this along three key lines of analysis:

the restructuring of the state beyond its welfare functions
changes in governance and the creation of new binaries
a redefining of the education sector around the needs of the child.

This book provides a unique and insightful critique of Every Child Matters and its contribution to understandings of New Labour social policy. It locates the genesis of the policy in terms of its social, political and historical contexts and questions the validity of constructing social policy around issues of child welfare. Students, academics and researchers in education studies and education policy will find this book of great interest.

Catherine A. Simon is a Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at Bath Spa University. Stephen Ward is Dean of the School of Education at Bath Spa University.

@contents: 1. The Political Origins of Every Child Matters 2. Modernizing the Welfare State: New Public Management 3. International Comparisons: No Child Left Behind and Excellence for All Americans 4. Sure Start: Combating Urban Disadvantage 5. The Five Outcomes of Every Child Matters 6. Poverty and Economic Wellbeing 7. Child Welfare and Looked-after Children: From Protection to Prevention 8. Citizenship and a New Social Order 9. Challenging Parents: Government in loco parentis 10. Multi-agency Working: Plowden Revisited 11. Redefining the Education Sector: The Challenge for Schools 12. Conclusion: Does Every Child Still Matter?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.6.2010
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	270 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-49579-2 / 0415495792
ISBN-13	978-0-415-49579-0 / 9780415495790
Zustand	Neuware