Special issue (Part 1): regulating childhoods: disrupting discourses of control

Title: Special issue (Part 1): regulating childhoods: disrupting discourses of control
Creator: Lee, I-Fang
Relation: Global Studies of Childhood Vol. 5, Issue 3, p. 223-225
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043610615601236
Publisher: Symposium Journals
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: Going to and/or attending (pre)school has become an expected contemporary childhood experience for many children around the world. Discussions and debates concerning the ways in which early childhood education and care should be organized and planned to ensure the quality for the hope of a better future are transcending political and sociocultural boundaries. Among the multiple foci of discussions and critiques relating to the main theme of 'Regulating Childhoods', the articles of this Special Issue all share similar concerns of the dangers of normalization and regulation in the different societies of control across different cultural and geopolitical spaces. We hope the collection of articles about the different international cases in this Special Issue can offer alternative perspectives and open up new possibilities for reconsidering and problematizing contemporary understandings of children and their childhoods.
Subject: preschool; childhood education; learning outcomes; Australia
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1320992
Identifier: uon:24237
Identifier: ISSN:2043-6106
Language: eng