CHELSEA BAILEY Assistant Professor in the School of Education, New York UniversityBERNADETTE BAKER Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-MadisonBETH BLUE SWADENER Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Arizona State UniversityGAILE S. CANNELLA Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, Texas A&M UniversityLOIC CHALMEL Professor at Rouen University, FranceGUNILLA DAHLBERG Professor at the Institute of Education, University of StockholmMIRIAM DAVID Professor of Policy Studies in the Department of Education, University of Keele, EnglandINES DUSSEL Senior Researcher at FLACSO/Universidad de San Andres, ArgentinaGUNILLA HALLDEN Professor in the Department of Child Studies, Linkoping University, SwedenCAMILLA HALLGREN Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Teacher Education, University of Umea, SwedenKERSTIN HOLMLUND Senior Lecturer and Chair in the Department of Teacher Education, University of Umea, SwedenINGEBORG MOQVIST Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education, University of Vaxjo, SwedenVALERIE POLAKOW Professor of Education at Eastern Michigan UniversityELENA SMIRNOVA Professr of Psychology at the Psychological Institute, Russian Academy of Education, MoscowVLADIMIR SOBKIN Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology of Education, Russian Academy of Education, MoscowPATRICK WACHIRA Kent State UniversityGABY WEINER Professor in the Department of Teacher Education, University of Umea, Sweden

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PART I: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PATTERNS OF GOVERNING THE CHILD, THE FAMILY, THEIR CARE AND EDUCATION: AN INTRODUCTION; M.Bloch, T.Popkewitz, K.Holmlund & I.Moqvist PART II: THE UNIVERSAL CHILD AND FAMILY IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY: THE NATIONAL CONTEXT WITHIN THE GLOBAL CIRCULATION OF POWER RELATIONS The Ethics of Learning; G.Dahlberg The Welfare State and the Changed Meaning of Childhood; G.Hallden Constructing a Parent; I.Moqvist Children's Rights and the Protection of Childhood Under Changing Conditions in Russia; E.Smirnova & V.Sobkin PART III: HISTORIES AND HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF THE CHILD, FAMILY, CARE AND SCHOOLING Remaking the Home and 'Belonging': Changing Patterns of Governing the Child in the Family; T.S.Popkewitz Hear Ye! Hear Ye! The State, (Dis)ability, Education, and the Child; B.Baker The Child and the Spectacle of Policy in the Age of the 'Dangerous Individual'; C.Bailey Early Childhood Education: the Duty of the Family or Institutions?; L.Chalmel PART IV: YOUNG CHILD, GENDER AND CHANGING GOVERNING PATTERNS The State and Wage Earning Mothers: Ideology or Reality?; K.Holmlund Child Welfare in the United States: The Construction of Gendered, Oppositional Discourse(s); G.S.Cannella Children's Rights and Market Rights in the De-Welfared State; V.Polakow 'Teenage Parenthood is Bad for Parents and Children': A Feminist Critique of the Restructuring of the Governance of Family, Education and Social Welfare Policies and Practices; M.David PART V: GLOBALIZING NEW GOVERNING DISCOURSES IN SCHOOLING AS THE ADMINIDTRATION OF THE CHILD, FAMILY, AND EDUCATION Children and Families in Neocolonial Kenya: Losing Ground Under Neoliberal Global Policies; B.B.Swadener & P.Wachira Antiracism, IT, Education and the State in Sweden: Why here? Why now?; C.Hallgren & G.Weiner Educational Policy after Welfare: Reconstructing Patterns of Governance in Argentinean Education; I.Dussel The Global and the Local: A Feminist and Post-Colonial Analysis of the Restructured Governing Patterns Relatedto National Imaginaries of Care for Children and Families: Governing the Well-Educated and Cared for Citizen and Family in the USA, Senegal, and Hungary; M.Bloch

This is a collection of essays that address the international changes in welfare policy. The book discusses the new patterns of governing associated with the notions of welfare, care, and education that emerge during the late Twentieth and early Twenty-first-centuries. The issues examined are, among others, the role of international donors and their emphasis on efficiency and lower social subsidies, international migration and its impact on welfare policy inclusions (and exclusions), and national policy change. While representing many different locations and traditions, contributors work within a variety of critical theoretical perspectives that critique our cultural ways of reasoning about the care and education of the child, the role and practice of the state, and the social and cultural construction of citizenship and nationhood.