The Child In The World/the World In The Child: Education And The Configuration Of A Universal, Modern, And Globalized Childhood (critical Cultural Studies Of Childhood)

The contributors look at universalizing discourses concerning young children across the globe, which purport to describe everyone in a scientific and neutral way, but actually create mechanisms through which children are divided and excluded. The contributors to this book employ post-structuralist, postcolonial, and feminist theoretical frameworks. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction: Education and the Global/Local Construction of the Universal, Modern, and Globalized Child, School, and Nation....Pages 3-17 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 Educational Theories and Pedagogies as Technologies of Power/Knowledge: Educating the Young Child as a Citizen of an Imagined Nation and World....Pages 21-42 Configuring the Jewish Child: Intersections of Pedagogy and Cultural Identity....Pages 43-62 Problematizing Asian American Children as “Model” Students....Pages 63-78 Front Matter....Pages 79-79 Language Learning, Language Teaching, and the Construction of the Young Child....Pages 81-98 The Quest for Health in Different Timespaces....Pages 99-117 How Might Teachers of Young Children Interrogate Images as Visual Culture?....Pages 118-142 The System of Reasoning the Child in Contemporary Japan....Pages 143-156 The Specter of the Abnormal Haunts the Child: A Historical Study of the “Problem-child” in Brazilian Educational Discourses....Pages 157-174 Front Matter....Pages 175-175 No Child Left Behind? The Specters of Almsgiving and Atonement: A Short Genealogy of the Saving Grace of U.S. Education....Pages 177-194 Illusions of Social Democracy: Early Childhood Educational Voucher Policies in Taiwan....Pages 195-211 The Foundation Stage Child in a Shifting Sea: A History of the Present of the United Kingdom’s Education Act 2002....Pages 212-229 Back Matter....Pages 230-239 Looks at the spread of universalizing discourses concerning young children across the globe, examining the way these discourses, which purport to describe those in a scientific and neutral way, actually create mechanisms through which children are divided and excluded