The diffusion of the Bookstart programme in Taiwan: description, concepts and research design

Sun, Milan Tung‐Wen; Shih, Mei‐Chiang; Walker, Richard M.

doi:10.1080/17516234.2014.894896

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“…Much research on Bookstart and similar book-gifting schemes where librarians or health care actors cooperate in provision have been conducted internationally (Espersen 2016;Ghelani 1999;Hall 2001;Hashimoto 2012;Moore and Wade 2003;O'Hare and Connolly 2014;Tung-Wen Sun, Shih, and Walker 2014;Wray and Medwell 2015). Positive outcomes from book-gifting schemes concerning children's attitudes to books and parent-child reading have been noticed (Moore and Wade 2003).…”

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Integrating cultural and social policy through family home visits in suburban areas of exclusion: examining the rationalities of Bookstart Göteborg

Sol

Ekholm

2021

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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This article explores the rationality of the Bookstart home-visiting programme in Gothenburg, Sweden, concerning its general ambition to provide social inclusion through mixing cultural-and welfare policy. Through the Bookstart programme, librarians visit families in their homes to inform and instruct parents about reading books for their children to enhance language learning. The areas of the city chosen for intervention were described as socially vulnerable, typically with a majority of citizens born outside Sweden. The analysis outlines the rationality and technologies formed in a philanthropist tradition, targeting the moral potential of parenting and creating the subjectivities of the reading parent and child. Different welfare professionals employ slightly different discourses but all base their legitimacy on the benign power of knowledge about what is best for children in the city. Through this analysis, we contribute to the knowledge of how cultural policy is integrated into social policy in the contemporary advanced liberal welfare state.

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Integrating cultural and social policy through family home visits in suburban areas of exclusion: examining the rationalities of Bookstart Göteborg

Sol

Ekholm

2021

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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Policy innovation and public organizational performance: a moderated mediation analysis of Taiwan’s Bookstart program

Liu

2021

Public Management Review

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The diffusion of the Bookstart programme in Taiwan: description, concepts and research design

Cited by 2 publications

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Integrating cultural and social policy through family home visits in suburban areas of exclusion: examining the rationalities of Bookstart Göteborg

Integrating cultural and social policy through family home visits in suburban areas of exclusion: examining the rationalities of Bookstart Göteborg

Policy innovation and public organizational performance: a moderated mediation analysis of Taiwan’s Bookstart program

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