Developing Child-Centered Social Policies
When Professionalism Takes Over
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5934799 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicole Hennum (OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 441-459 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci3030441 |
| OpenAlex | W2128575890 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 54 |
No nation today can be understood as being fully child-centered, but many are pursuing social policies heavily favoring children. The emphasis on individual rights and the growth of scientific knowledge underpinning many of these policies have led to the improvement of the lives of a great many children. Paradoxically, these same knowledge bases informing social policies often produce representations and images of children and their parents that are detrimental for both of these groups. Using Norwegian child welfare policies and practices as examples, I will examine some of the possible pitfalls of child-centered praxis. The key question here is one asking whether the scientific frame central to child welfare professionalism has positioned children and parents as objects rather than subjects in their own lives and, in so doing, required them to live up to standards of life defined for them by experts. A central question will involve exploring the extent to which scientific knowledge has erased political and ethical considerations from the field when assessing social problems
Field (mathematics · Norwegian · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Underpinning · Welfare · Children's Rights and Participation · Early Childhood Education and Development · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Never Been nor Seen Reality – Text Matters
Staten, barnevernet og utenrikspolitikken
‘So under “cause for concern”, I’ll write that...’ class, parenting and risk prevention in public health practices in schools
The Negation of ‘Good’ Childhood
After the ‘need for ... a father’
What role do children play in social services
Access to Public Support Systems Related to Severity of Adversities and Resilience among Adolescents
Am I that bad?’
Money, Love, and Work
I Think It’s So Complicated Knowing What to Make of What Children Show’
It’s normal, you just gotta get used to it.” Professional, institutional and organisational challenges for social work in residential care
Exploring the colonial contours of child welfare services and their implications for immigrant parents’ participation and trust
Self‐legitimation and sense‐making of Southern European parents' migration to Norway
Neoliberalism, healthism and moral judgements
Some Useful Sources
Universal Parenting Support in Norway – An Unfulfilled Promise
Parenting Support in Europe's North
Governing the family
Staying with the conflict – parenting work and the social organization of post-divorce conflict
Anxiety and defensiveness as predictors of maternal child-centrism
Recognising the embedded child in child protection
Professional and organizational power intertwined
How friendly are OECD countries towards children? Conceptualization and measuring issues
How child inclusive were Australia's responses to Covid ‐19
Trust and complexities of multicultural social work
Ideological Entanglements of Family Policy and Their Consequences – Could the Charter of Family Rights Help to Solve the Dilemmas
Which participation practices can be found in child welfare service records
Adolescents' Negotiations of Loyalty and Fairness in Relation to Parents' Separation Process
Structural Disadvantage
Supporting Children, Blaming Parents
The Heavy Cost of Care
My Children are Norwegian but I am a Foreigner
Parenting Support and its Different Functions - Parents' Experiences. A Case Study from Norway
American exceptionalism
Governing Children, Families, and Education
The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies
Mères sous influence
Parenting Culture Studies
Child Protection Systems
Obstacles for child participation in care and protection cases—why Norwegian social workers find it difficult
Intensive Parenting and the Expansion of Parenting
Pricing the priceless child
Inventing our Selves
Class, Self, Culture
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected
Ethnography in the Study of Children and Childhood
Risk and Morality
Studies in Modern Childhood
Soutenir et contrôler les parents
The Politicization of Parenthood
Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies
Individualization
Agency, actors and change in a child-focused future
Child protection systems within the Danish, Finnish and Norwegian welfare states—time for a child centric approach
Transforming child welfare
Controlling children's lives
Rhetoric versus Reality
Social Exclusion and the Welfare of the Child
The ‘child in need’ and ‘the rich child’
Meeting parents’ needs? Discourses of ‘support’ and ‘inclusion’ in family policy
Children (but not women) first
Investing in the Citizen‐workers of the Future
Misanthropy Without Borders
Mothering, Class and Rationality
A Passion for Boundaries
Local, Global or Globalized
Seeing Like a State
In Other Words
Raising the 'Meritocracy
Small Facts and Large Issues
Invisible Fences
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |