Val Gillies

Challenging the politics of early intervention

Who's 'saving' children and why

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A vital interrogation of the internationally accepted policy and practice consensus that intervention to shape parenting in the early years is the way to prevent disadvantage. Given the divisive assumptions and essentialist ideas behind early years intervention, in whose interests does it really serve? This book critically assesses assertions that the 'wrong type of parenting' has biological and cultural effects, stunting babies' brain development and leading to a life of poverty and under-achievement. It shows how early intervention policies underpinned by interpretations of brain science perpetuate gendered, classed and raced inequalities.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Edwards, Rosalind

ISBN: 978-1-4473-2413-3
EAN: 9781447324133
Produktnummer: 23890185
Verlag: Policy Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'225 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Val Gillies is Professor of Social Policy/Criminology at the University of Westminster. She researches in the area of family, social class, marginalised children and young people, and historical comparative analysis. Rosalind Edwards is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton, where she is also Social Sciences Director of Research and a Co-Director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods. Nicola Horsley is a research fellow at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research analyses discourses of citizenship, educational and family practices, and the privileging of scientific and technical knowledge in policy making.