Social investment’ as political economy of education

Recent changes in early childhood education in New Zealand

Bibliographic Data

ID13005690
AuthorsMargaret Stuart (0000-0002-7839-6709, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume8
Issue1
Pages75-90
Publication date2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Studies of Childhood (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2043-6106 • E-ISSN: 2043-6106
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/2043610618763177
OpenAlexW2797223678
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited16

The newly coined policy of social investment is an economic argument for targeting state investment to the most needy. I use Foucault’s notion of biopolitics in a discursive analysis of recent New Zealand policy documents pertaining to a discrete group of ‘vulnerable children’. I further argue that the Foucauldian metaphor of state institutions as war-like gives knowledge/power to investment as efficient government

Argument (complex analysis · Biopower · Early childhood education · Economic growth · Economics · Education policy · Government (linguistics · Governmentality · Higher education · Investment (military · Metaphor · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Children's Rights and Participation · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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