Education and the risk society : theories, discourse and risk identities in education contexts / / edited by Steven Bialostok, Robert L. Whitman, William S. Bradley.

• Superior document: Context of Education ; v.5
• TeilnehmendeR: Bialostok, Steven, 1954-; Whitman, Robert L.; Bradley, William S.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed. 2012.
• Language: English
• Series: Contexts of education ; v. 5; Context of Education ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Sociological and anthropological literature has examined how contemporary western society has become a “risk society.” Education and the Risk Society is the first volume to explore this seminal concept through the lens of education. Drawing on a theoretical literature that has great potential as a lens to view changes in neoliberal discourses of global capitalism from both critical and generative perspectives, Education and the Risk Society presents situated, empirical studies investigating an uncertain world as people practice it on the ground, through language and activity, within educational settings.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Steven Bialostok , Robert L. Whitman and William S. Bradley -- Education and the Risk Society: An Introduction / Steven Bialostok and Robert Whitman -- Children, the Great Recession and Shifting Calculi of Risk / Majia Holmer Nadesan -- Efficiency, Standardization and Mitigating Risk: The Strange Career of Scientific Management in American Education, 1890–2010 / Peter William Moran -- “Have a Go At It”: Embracing Risks and Teaching in Late Modern Capitalism / Steven Bialostok -- Risky Words / Robert Whitman -- Young Children at Risk in a Risk Society / Michelle Buchanan -- On the (Im)possibility of Taking Care: Israeli Early Education Teachers Have Their Say / Deborah Golden -- Regulating Risk: Health Canada’s Approach to a Preschool Program for Aboriginal Children / Susanne Miskimmin -- Mouthy Citizens: Language and Risk in the Netherlands / Marnie Bjornson -- Birds of a Feather? Peers, Delinquency, and Risk / Deborah Freedman Lustig and Kenzo Sung -- Managing Risk and ‘giving back’: Aspiration among Working-class Latino Youth in Silicon Valley / Elsa Davidson -- New Learning, New Youth? Policy, Literacy, and the Subjects of Reform in Risk Society / Marta Albert -- Risk, Media and Japanese Young People / William Bradley -- The New Risktakers / Shirley Brice Heath.