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Showing papers by "Thomas S. Popkewitz published in 2003"


Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: The child, family, and community are sacred sites of modern politics and social welfare systems as mentioned in this paper, and family values are what modern social reformers retort will bring national consensus and fight cultural disintegration.
Abstract: The child, family, and community are sacred sites of modern politics and social welfare systems. Family values are what modern social reformers retort will bring national consensus and fight cultural disintegration. The health and the sanctity of the child are said to be pivotal for national preservation, social regeneration, and the progress of humankind. But the family and child are not just there to beguile and to recoup a paradise lost. The family, the school, and the community are historical sites of governing. This governing is not only the institutional procedures or organizational practices that provide the welfare “nets” for the family or to enable the education of the child. From the late eighteenth century, the child, family, and community have been subjects of regulating the intimate relations interests and aspirations as an instrument of regulating populations. “[T]he family becomes an instrument rather than a model: the privileged instrument for the government of the population and not the chimerical model of good government” (Foucault, 1978/1991, p. 100). The governing is embodied in linking of the development of the rationally ordered life of the child and family with the “political will” and progress of the nation.2

97 citations


Book
01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: Bloch, T.Popkewitz, K.Holmlund, and I.S.Moqvist as discussed by the authors discuss the changing patterns of governing the child in the family and the changing meaning of childhood.
Abstract: PART I: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PATTERNS OF GOVERNING THE CHILD, THE FAMILY, THEIR CARE AND EDUCATION: AN INTRODUCTION M.Bloch, T.Popkewitz, K.Holmlund & I.Moqvist PART II: THE UNIVERSAL CHILD AND FAMILY IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY: THE NATIONAL CONTEXT WITHIN THE GLOBAL CIRCULATION OF POWER RELATIONS The Ethics of Learning G.Dahlberg The Welfare State and the Changed Meaning of Childhood G.Hallden Constructing a Parent I.Moqvist Children's Rights and the Protection of Childhood Under Changing Conditions in Russia E.Smirnova & V.Sobkin PART III: HISTORIES AND HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF THE CHILD, FAMILY, CARE AND SCHOOLING Remaking the Home and 'Belonging': Changing Patterns of Governing the Child in the Family T.S.Popkewitz Hear Ye! Hear Ye! The State, (Dis)ability, Education, and the Child B.Baker The Child and the Spectacle of Policy in the Age of the 'Dangerous Individual' C.Bailey Early Childhood Education: the Duty of the Family or Institutions? L.Chalmel PART IV: YOUNG CHILD, GENDER AND CHANGING GOVERNING PATTERNS The State and Wage Earning Mothers: Ideology or Reality? K.Holmlund Child Welfare in the United States: The Construction of Gendered, Oppositional Discourse(s) G.S.Cannella Children's Rights and Market Rights in the De-Welfared State V.Polakow 'Teenage Parenthood is Bad for Parents and Children': A Feminist Critique of the Restructuring of the Governance of Family, Education and Social Welfare Policies and Practices M.David PART V: GLOBALIZING NEW GOVERNING DISCOURSES IN SCHOOLING AS THE ADMINIDTRATION OF THE CHILD, FAMILY, AND EDUCATION Children and Families in Neocolonial Kenya: Losing Ground Under Neoliberal Global Policies B.B.Swadener & P.Wachira Antiracism, IT, Education and the State in Sweden: Why here? Why now? C.Hallgren & G.Weiner Educational Policy after Welfare: Reconstructing Patterns of Governance in Argentinean Education I.Dussel The Global and the Local: A Feminist and Post-Colonial Analysis of the Restructured Governing Patterns Related to National Imaginaries of Care for Children and Families: Governing the Well-Educated and Cared for Citizen and Family in the USA, Senegal, and Hungary M.Bloch

75 citations


Book
01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, educational partnerships in a cold climate are discussed and an introductory framework for educational partnership is presented. But it does not address the issues of inclusion and exclusion in educational policies.
Abstract: Introduction: Educational Partnerships: An Introductory Framework B.M.Franklin M.Bloch & T.S.Popkewitz PART I: PARTNERSHIPS AND CHANGING PATTERNS OF GOVERNING Partnerships: The Social Pact and Changing Systems of Reasoning a Comparative Perspectives T.S.Popkewitz Partnership as a Floating and Empty Signifier within Educational Policies: The Mexican Case R.Buenfil Burgos PART II: BETWEEN THE STATE, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND EDUCATION Partnerships in a Cold Climate: The Case of Britain B.M.Franklin & G.McCulloch Educational Action Zones: Model Partnerships M.Dickson , S.Gewirtz , D.Halpin , S.Power & G.Whitty Partnerships-The Community Context in Miami M.Y.Baber & K.M.Borman with J.Avery & E.Amador PART III: SCHOOL REFORM AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS The Public-Private Nexus in Education H.M.Levin Governance and Accountability in the Michigan Partnership for New Education: Reconstructing Democratic Participation L.Fendler PART IV: GOVERNING AS A PROBLEM OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION Partnerships and Parents: Issues of Sex and Gender in Policy and Practice M.E.David Partnering to Serve and Save the Child with Potential: Re-examining Salvation Narratives within one University-School-Community 'Service-Learning' Project M.Bloch , I.Fang Lee , & R.L.Peach

45 citations



Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: The authors examined the emergence of similar ideas across different spaces through cultural and historical analyses, and theoretically examined the ways in which local knowledge and practice travel and get translated in other places and spaces.
Abstract: This book focuses on new patterns of governing associated with the notions of welfare, care, and education that have emerged during the late twentieth and early twenty-first century in light of historically and culturally specific, and global, relations. Recent changes in welfare state provisions have produced multiple changes in different institutions related to the structure of “care” and education for the family and the child. But when looking across nations, there is a certain similarity in the changes occurring that some suggest is related to the globalization of cultural, or political, economic patterns. We critically examine the emergence of similar ideas across different spaces through cultural and historical analyses, and by theoretically examining the ways in which local knowledge and practice travel and get translated in other places and spaces.

30 citations



Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: The modern salvation themes of schooling are not religious in seeking a heaven in the-life-after, but are secular in offering the deliverance of the nation through the education of the child as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Policies and research about school reforms embody salvation themes. The modern salvation themes of schooling are not religious in seeking a heaven in the-life-after. They are secular in offering the deliverance of the nation through the education of the child. Salvation themes of rescue, redemption, and progress are embodied in the worldwide institutionalization of schooling as the nation-state formed in the nineteenth century (Meyer et al., 1997). Contemporary school reforms are spoken about as insuring the future of democracy in the new world of, to use its planetspeak, “a global” and “knowledge-based” society.2 Partnerships in educational reforms are one such salvation theme. From different ideological positions, partnerships tell of collective progress through promoting civic participation through individual and group involvement in the local agencies. The stories of educational partnerships are tales of seeking a newly arrived consensus and harmony between the governed and the government.3

24 citations





01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: Deciphering Educational Thought In Sweden In The Early 2000: Fabricating Subjects In the Name of History and the Future.
Abstract: Deciphering Educational Thought In Sweden In The Early 2000. : Fabricating Subjects In The Name Of History And The Future.

01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, four contemporary practices are analyzed: the redesign of an industrial city, an e-book about education, a report by the U.S. National Research Council, and a professional magazine, in all of which the concept of design is present.
Abstract: Este articulo pretende entender la pedagogia de la escuela y la reestructuracion actual de la educacion como tecnologias del yo. Analiza cuatro practicas contemporaneas RESUME: Avec ce-texte on entend faire comprendre la pedagogie de l´ecole et la restructuration actuelle de l'education comme les technologies du moi-meme. Le texte aussi analyse quatre pratiques contemporaines : le re-design d'une cite industrielle, un livre de l'enseignement a ligne, un rapport du Conseil National de la Recherche Americaine et un magazine professionnel, dans cela, l'idee du design est presente donnant un fil conducteur que permettre reflechir meme que sur les diverses connections et les relations que moulent et determinent les principes d'action et participation, comme sur la facon d'administrer la liberte de l'homme. ABSTRACT: This article is intended to understand school pedagogy, and current educational restructuring as technologies of the self. Here, four contemporary practices are analyzed – the redesign of an industrial city, an e-book about education, a report by the U.S. National Research Council, and a professional magazine – , in all of which the concept of design is present. Thus, one may reflect not only on the several connections and relationships that shape and determine the principles of action and participation, but also on how individual's liberty is managed – el rediseno de una ciudad industrial, un libro de ensenanza en linea, un informe del Consejo Nacional de Investigacion estadounidense y una revista profesional – en las que la idea de diseno esta presente, proporcionando un hilo conductor que permite reflexionar no solo sobre las diversas conexiones y relaciones que moldean y determinan los principios de accion y participacion, sino tambien como se administra la libertad del individuo.