Problem children or harassed childhood?: Discourses and practices among pedagogues

Hanne Warming

Problem children or harassed childhood? Discourses and practices among pedagogues

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Abstract

The paper examine the discourses among pedagogues in daycare institutions. The analysis shows that the pedagogies identify structural and economic problems, but never the less it is the chldren (and their parents) that the pedagogues blame, when they experience the situation in the day care instition as stressed andnoisy, and thus it is the children they try to change (re-socialize) to solve the problems. The paper concludes that the discoruses tend to individualize structural problems with the result that a large group of children are identified as problem children rather than given better conditions. At the same time ther are also counter discourses which do not individualize problems in the same way. These counter discourses open for other more inclusive, recognizing and not so stigmatizing strategies, however they still fail to fight the structural problems.

Translated title of the contribution	Problem børn eller problematisk barndom: Diskurser og pratikker blandt pædagoger
Original language	English
Publication date	2006
Number of pages	11
Publication status	Published - 2006
Event	COST A19 Children's welfare - challenges and oppotunities - Roskilde, Denmark Duration: 16 Jun 2006 → 17 Jun 2006

Conference

Conference	COST A19 Children's welfare - challenges and oppotunities
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Roskilde
Period	16/06/2006 → 17/06/2006

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