What All Parents Need to Know? Exploring the Hidden Normativity of the Language of Developmental Psychology in Parenting
What All Parents Need to Know
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11952047 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Ramaeker (0000-0002-3528-7238, corresponding author), Judith Suissa (0000-0002-4156-9477) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 352-369 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2012.00866.x |
| OpenAlex | W2107137062 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 9 |
In this article we focus on how the language of developmental psychology shapes our conceptualisations and understandings of childrearing and of the parent-child relationship. By analysing some examples of contemporary research, policy and popular literature on parenting and parenting support in the UK and Flanders, we explore some of the ways in which normative assumptions about parenthood and upbringing are imported into these areas through the language of developmental psychology. We go on to address the particular attraction of developmental psychology in the field of parenting and upbringing within our current cultural context. Drawing on the work of (among others) Zygmunt Bauman, we will show how developmental psychology, as one of the instruments that contributes to a breaking down of our existential condition into a series of well-defined, and thus apparently manageable, tasks and categories, displaces rather than confronts the possibly limitless depth of the enormity of the reality of 'being a parent'. © 2012 Journal of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain
Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Focus (optics · Normative · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Psychology · Social Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
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Expertise, pedagogy and practice
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Being a good digital parent
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Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe
Neurobiological limits and the somatic significance of love
Ethics Responsibility Dialogue The Meaning of Dialogue in Lévinas's Philosophy
Parental Everyday Stress
Talking Back to 'Family', 'Family Troubles', and 'the Looked-after Child
Making beautiful babies
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |