Education and the risk society : theories, discourse and risk identities in education contexts / / edited by Steven Bialostok, Robert L. Whitman, William S. Bradley.
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 l...
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| Superior document: | Context of Education ; v.5 |
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| 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. |
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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.