Marianne N Bloch
Biographic Data
| ID | 833486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marianne N Bloch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marianne N |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloch |
| SIGNATURE | BLOCH M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3326-9343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reciprocal mentorship and Rece journeys: An intergenerational dialogue
This essay brings together three intergenerational colleagues, two RECE founders, and a mid-career colleague, engaged in reciprocal mentorship, collaborative projects, and research focused on child care, critical policy studies, and global childhoods. We explore our encounters with RECE and how we have engaged with, been influenced by, and found various collaborative spaces through our reconceptualist/RECE experiences. In our dialogue, we discuss…
Child care and Covid: Precarious communities in distanced times
Drawing from an analysis of responses to COVID affecting the ECCE sector in the US, including the narratives of early childhood educators, we engage with several questions. These include: How is care work with children constructed and affected by COVID-19? How might current responses and policies be understood through the lens of social citizenship and the collective/the individual? How do these issues reflect the precarity of the ECCE sector? Ho…
Assemblage: Global Speak, Research, Policy, Childhood, and Hope
This article draws on diverse theoretical concepts developed by Deleuze and Guattari to bring their ideas into the field of early childhood education and critical childhood studies, especially. We begin with discussion of how concepts developed by Deleuze and Guattari open possibilities for rethinking childhood and childhood studies. We situate the popular document Developmentally Appropriate Practices at the center of this discussion as an exemp…
The Whitings' Concepts of Culture and How They Have Fared in Contemporary Psychology and Anthropology
This article presents a brief intellectual biography of John and Beatrice Whiting, followed by an examination of five key ideas that they put forward to the fields of psychology and anthropology through their theoretical and empirical writings. These key ideas are (a) the assumption of the psychic unity of humankind, (b) the cultural learning environment, (c) the psychocultural model, (d) the synergistic relationship of the disciplines of psychol…
Gender, Work, and Child Care: Crossing borders in the life and work of Sally Lubeck
The focus of this article is on the themes of gender, work, and child care as they have been addressed in much of Sally Lubeck's work, in an attempt to understand her trajectory, and her diverse messages to us. In reading her work for this article, key themes stood out that focus our attention on Sally Lubeck's continuing fight for better public funding for child care/early education in the USA, and for a positive family policy that supports all …
A Discourse that Disciplines, Governs, and Regulates: The National Research Council's Report on Scientific Research in Education
This article discusses the National Research Council (2002) report's six guiding principles that define good scientific educational research. The principles and discussion focus on good educational research in terms of the "rigor" of the research as well as the "scientific" base and principles adhered to in doing the research. This article critically examines the normative base from which the consensual definitions of rigorous research and good s…
Governing Children, Families, and Education: Restructuring the Welfare State
This is a collection of essays that address the international changes in welfare policy. The book discusses the new patterns of governing associated with the notions of welfare, care, and education th
Global/Local Analyses of the Construction of “Family-Child Welfare”
In this analysis, I focus on cultural reasoning about "Family-Child Welfare" at the beginning of the twenty-first century in relation to reasoning about "Family-Child Welfare" in the past. Specifically, I draw on Foucault's notions of sovereign, disciplinary, and bio-power (Foucault, 1977; 1980, 1988) to examine new patterns of regulation, new "govern-mentalities" (Foucault, 1979/1991) regarding the child, family, welfare, care and well-being. I …
Governing Teachers, Parents, and Children through Child Development Knowledge
Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities, and Constraints
This volume focuses on gender and education in sub-Saharan Africa, considering in particular the impact formal and non-formal education have had on African women. A variety of country studies illustrate theoretical debates and the authors provide historical and cultural context
Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities, and Constraints
What history tells us about public schools for 4-year-olds
In 1926, Patty Smith Hill (1926/1987), then director of the kindergarten unit at Teachers College, Columbia University, suggested the first and foremost imperative function of the kindergarten is to minister to the nature and needs of children from 4 to 6 years of age (p. 12). This and other historical evidence calls into question the assumption widely held in recent discussions that schooling for is a new, unique idea in America. Kindergartens w…
The Effect of Seasonal Maternal Employment on Young Senegalese Children's Behavior
The research describes the effect of seasonal maternal employment on 3-5 year old childrens play and social behavior in one rural village in Senegal. Thirty-one male and female children of employed (n = 18) and unemployed mothers (n = 13) were observed during the course of two seasons: One five month season when the 18 employed women were engaged in seasonal agricultural wage labor near their village, and a subsequent two month unemployment seaso…
The development of sex differences in young children's activities at home: The effect of the social context
Observing Other Teachers Teach: The Effect on Adolescent Teaching Behavior
Low-income adolescents were instructed to observe videotapes of two teachers consistently modeling effective teaching of young children in a structured teaching task. Simultaneously the subjects incidentally observed systematic differences in the inquiry- and directive-oriented teaching styles and novel behavior being modeled. As a result of observation, the subjects imitated aspects of the incidentally observed inquiry teaching style modeled as …
Women's and Children's Activity Profiles: A Comparison of Time Allocation and Time Allocation Methods
Cross-culturally, there is a growing interest in the effect of women's participation in the wage economy on the quantity and quality of maternal interaction with children and children's development. Essential to all of the questions concerning the effect of women's work on their interaction with children is a methodology for studying how women in different cultures use time. This paper draws on two independent field studies, one done in Senegal a…
A Discourse that Disciplines, Governs, and Regulates: The National Research Council's Report on Scientific Research in Education
This article discusses the National Research Council (2002) report's six guiding principles that define good scientific educational research. The principles and discussion focus on good educational research in terms of the "rigor" of the research as well as the "scientific" base and principles adhered to in doing the research. This article critically examines the normative base from which the consensual definitions of rigorous research and good s…
Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities, and Constraints
This volume focuses on gender and education in sub-Saharan Africa, considering in particular the impact formal and non-formal education have had on African women. A variety of country studies illustrate theoretical debates and the authors provide historical and cultural context
Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities, and Constraints
The Whitings' Concepts of Culture and How They Have Fared in Contemporary Psychology and Anthropology
This article presents a brief intellectual biography of John and Beatrice Whiting, followed by an examination of five key ideas that they put forward to the fields of psychology and anthropology through their theoretical and empirical writings. These key ideas are (a) the assumption of the psychic unity of humankind, (b) the cultural learning environment, (c) the psychocultural model, (d) the synergistic relationship of the disciplines of psychol…
The development of sex differences in young children's activities at home: The effect of the social context
Child care and Covid: Precarious communities in distanced times
Drawing from an analysis of responses to COVID affecting the ECCE sector in the US, including the narratives of early childhood educators, we engage with several questions. These include: How is care work with children constructed and affected by COVID-19? How might current responses and policies be understood through the lens of social citizenship and the collective/the individual? How do these issues reflect the precarity of the ECCE sector? Ho…
What history tells us about public schools for 4-year-olds
In 1926, Patty Smith Hill (1926/1987), then director of the kindergarten unit at Teachers College, Columbia University, suggested the first and foremost imperative function of the kindergarten is to minister to the nature and needs of children from 4 to 6 years of age (p. 12). This and other historical evidence calls into question the assumption widely held in recent discussions that schooling for is a new, unique idea in America. Kindergartens w…
Women's and Children's Activity Profiles: A Comparison of Time Allocation and Time Allocation Methods
Cross-culturally, there is a growing interest in the effect of women's participation in the wage economy on the quantity and quality of maternal interaction with children and children's development. Essential to all of the questions concerning the effect of women's work on their interaction with children is a methodology for studying how women in different cultures use time. This paper draws on two independent field studies, one done in Senegal a…
Women's and Children's Activity Profiles: A Comparison of Time Allocation and Time Allocation Methods
Cross-culturally, there is a growing interest in the effect of women's participation in the wage economy on the quantity and quality of maternal interaction with children and children's development. Essential to all of the questions concerning the effect of women's work on their interaction with children is a methodology for studying how women in different cultures use time. This paper draws on two independent field studies, one done in Senegal a…
Observing Other Teachers Teach: The Effect on Adolescent Teaching Behavior
Low-income adolescents were instructed to observe videotapes of two teachers consistently modeling effective teaching of young children in a structured teaching task. Simultaneously the subjects incidentally observed systematic differences in the inquiry- and directive-oriented teaching styles and novel behavior being modeled. As a result of observation, the subjects imitated aspects of the incidentally observed inquiry teaching style modeled as …
The development of sex differences in young children's activities at home: The effect of the social context
The Effect of Seasonal Maternal Employment on Young Senegalese Children's Behavior
The research describes the effect of seasonal maternal employment on 3-5 year old childrens play and social behavior in one rural village in Senegal. Thirty-one male and female children of employed (n = 18) and unemployed mothers (n = 13) were observed during the course of two seasons: One five month season when the 18 employed women were engaged in seasonal agricultural wage labor near their village, and a subsequent two month unemployment seaso…
What history tells us about public schools for 4-year-olds
In 1926, Patty Smith Hill (1926/1987), then director of the kindergarten unit at Teachers College, Columbia University, suggested the first and foremost imperative function of the kindergarten is to minister to the nature and needs of children from 4 to 6 years of age (p. 12). This and other historical evidence calls into question the assumption widely held in recent discussions that schooling for is a new, unique idea in America. Kindergartens w…
Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities, and Constraints
Governing Teachers, Parents, and Children through Child Development Knowledge
Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities, and Constraints
This volume focuses on gender and education in sub-Saharan Africa, considering in particular the impact formal and non-formal education have had on African women. A variety of country studies illustrate theoretical debates and the authors provide historical and cultural context
Governing Children, Families, and Education: Restructuring the Welfare State
This is a collection of essays that address the international changes in welfare policy. The book discusses the new patterns of governing associated with the notions of welfare, care, and education th
Global/Local Analyses of the Construction of “Family-Child Welfare”
In this analysis, I focus on cultural reasoning about "Family-Child Welfare" at the beginning of the twenty-first century in relation to reasoning about "Family-Child Welfare" in the past. Specifically, I draw on Foucault's notions of sovereign, disciplinary, and bio-power (Foucault, 1977; 1980, 1988) to examine new patterns of regulation, new "govern-mentalities" (Foucault, 1979/1991) regarding the child, family, welfare, care and well-being. I …
A Discourse that Disciplines, Governs, and Regulates: The National Research Council's Report on Scientific Research in Education
This article discusses the National Research Council (2002) report's six guiding principles that define good scientific educational research. The principles and discussion focus on good educational research in terms of the "rigor" of the research as well as the "scientific" base and principles adhered to in doing the research. This article critically examines the normative base from which the consensual definitions of rigorous research and good s…
Gender, Work, and Child Care: Crossing borders in the life and work of Sally Lubeck
The focus of this article is on the themes of gender, work, and child care as they have been addressed in much of Sally Lubeck's work, in an attempt to understand her trajectory, and her diverse messages to us. In reading her work for this article, key themes stood out that focus our attention on Sally Lubeck's continuing fight for better public funding for child care/early education in the USA, and for a positive family policy that supports all …
The Whitings' Concepts of Culture and How They Have Fared in Contemporary Psychology and Anthropology
This article presents a brief intellectual biography of John and Beatrice Whiting, followed by an examination of five key ideas that they put forward to the fields of psychology and anthropology through their theoretical and empirical writings. These key ideas are (a) the assumption of the psychic unity of humankind, (b) the cultural learning environment, (c) the psychocultural model, (d) the synergistic relationship of the disciplines of psychol…
Assemblage: Global Speak, Research, Policy, Childhood, and Hope
This article draws on diverse theoretical concepts developed by Deleuze and Guattari to bring their ideas into the field of early childhood education and critical childhood studies, especially. We begin with discussion of how concepts developed by Deleuze and Guattari open possibilities for rethinking childhood and childhood studies. We situate the popular document Developmentally Appropriate Practices at the center of this discussion as an exemp…
Child care and Covid: Precarious communities in distanced times
Drawing from an analysis of responses to COVID affecting the ECCE sector in the US, including the narratives of early childhood educators, we engage with several questions. These include: How is care work with children constructed and affected by COVID-19? How might current responses and policies be understood through the lens of social citizenship and the collective/the individual? How do these issues reflect the precarity of the ECCE sector? Ho…
Reciprocal mentorship and Rece journeys: An intergenerational dialogue
This essay brings together three intergenerational colleagues, two RECE founders, and a mid-career colleague, engaged in reciprocal mentorship, collaborative projects, and research focused on child care, critical policy studies, and global childhoods. We explore our encounters with RECE and how we have engaged with, been influenced by, and found various collaborative spaces through our reconceptualist/RECE experiences. In our dialogue, we discuss…
Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social science (6 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (4 works)