The knowledgeable parenting style: stance takings and subject positions in media encounters

Aarsand, Liselott

doi:10.1080/02601370.2014.909895

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“…how parents are represented and governed to learn how to become 'good' parents through television shows, books and magazines (see e.g. Aarsand, 2014;Assarsson Aarsand, 2011;Dahlstedt, 2009;Dahlstedt & Fejes, 2014).…”

Section: How To Shape the Populationmentioning

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Governing of the nation: Generation Pep as a biopolitical strategy

Åkerblom

2019

Sport, Education and Society

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This article explores how the well-being of the Swedish population has become a joint responsibility in the mission to shape desirable and proper citizens. This is done by studying an organisation called Generation Pep (GEN-PEP), which was established as a measure to foster a well-functioning population both now and in the future. The article draws on a post-structural and discursive theorisation inspired by the work of Michel Foucault and his concept of governmentality, with the specific aims of studying how GEN-PEP functions as a biopolitical strategy aimed at fostering a desirable population and identifying governing techniques mobilised within and through the project. The population is described as having failed to function well and that this should be remedied by creating measures that are indirectly aimed at children as future useful citizens. The measures are legitimised by highlighting the population's ill-health. As a result of 'experts' and national role models telling these truths, the governing reflects the idea that a power similar to sovereign power needs to be re-established, where e.g. philanthropists contribute to and enable the project's strategies and measures. The measures taken are described as a mutual responsibility, with parents being made especially responsible for correcting faults in accordance with the suggested solutions. GEN-PEP functions as a biopolitical strategy in which corporations, philanthropists and celebrities are encouraged to work together to improve the wellbeing of the nation.

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Governing of the nation: Generation Pep as a biopolitical strategy

Åkerblom

2019

Sport, Education and Society

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“…Flera forskare (t.ex. Aarsand, 2014;Dahlstedt, 2009;Dagkas & Burrows, 2016;Lozic, 2016) har intresserat sig för hur föräldrar används som förmedlare vilka ska utföra fostrandet av barn (och sig själva) för att så tidigt som möjligt kunna skapa och forma en välfungerande medborgare för framtiden. Forskningen visar exempel på hur fostran av medborgaren omdirigerats till att utföras av familj och föräldrar.…”

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Utbildning och hälsa i nationens intresse : Styrningsteknologier och formering av en förädlad befolkning

Åkerblom

2019

Linköping Studies in Behavioural Science

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“…This paper focuses on the professional work that is enacted when parents seek help from professionals through child and family health services, specifically through support from nurses who visit in their homes (home visiting), or through a series of visits to a clinic (day stay). Parents are increasingly seeking expert help relating to parenting (Aarsand 2014) , but as parenting is such a highly sensitive topic, the use of expertise is particularly challenging in these contexts. Consequently, parenting support services in many countries have adopted partnership approaches.…”

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Epistemic Practices in Professional-Client Partnership Work

Hopwood

Nerland

2018

Vocations and Learning

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Relational aspects of professional practice demand increasing attention in research on work and learning. However, little is known about how knowledge is enacted in practices where different people work together. Working in partnership with clients surfaces a number of epistemic demands, responses to which are poorly understood. This paper analyses two cases of nurses working with parents in support services for families with young children. The questions asked are: What epistemic practices are enacted when professionals work in partnership with clients? How do they generate distinct modes of partnership work? Findings show how professionals' and clients' knowledge is mobilised and made actionable through practices of diagnostic reasoning, recontextualising, testing and contesting knowledge claims. A distinction is presented between partnership that unfolds as strengthening the client from a professional epistemic perspective, and that which validates and augments the client's own epistemic contribution. This reveals how knowledge is made to matter and becomes a basis for action in the course of working with others, and informs a new analytical distillation highlighting key epistemic aspects of professional-client partnership. Keywords Partnership; professional knowledge; epistemic practices; professional practice; parenting communication and inter-personal relationships have been specified in models, such as the Family Partnership Model (FPM; Day et al. 2015). The FPM was developed at the Centre for Parent and Child Support in the UK, and combines a model of an iterative helping process with in-service training for professionals and volunteers. The FPM focuses on communication and negotiation, describing relationships between professionals and clients, and qualities that contribute to these such as empathy, active listening, and positive regard for parents. Prior analyses of practices where FPM was implemented revealed partnership to be enacted in different ways. Relationships between exploring the problem, developing new meanings, embodied caregiving, and future planning varied from case to case (Hopwood 2016). Partnership reflects the contingencies and dynamics specific to each family (Hopwood & Edwards 2017). However, research shows professionals can experience difficulty wielding their expertise under the rubric of partnership (Grundmann 2017). Neither models like FPM nor prior research have clarified how professionals and parents handle knowledge. The epistemic dimensions of partnership remain unclear. This paper documents the enactment of partnership in concrete work settings, and addresses this gap by asking: What epistemic practices are enacted when professionals work in partnership with clients? How do these practices position participants and generate distinct modes of partnership work? Specifying distinctions between two cases, we then highlight key epistemic aspects of professional-client partnership. An epistemic practices perspective An epistemic practices perspective is useful for conceptualising ...

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The knowledgeable parenting style: stance takings and subject positions in media encounters

Cited by 9 publications

References 33 publications

Governing of the nation: Generation Pep as a biopolitical strategy

Governing of the nation: Generation Pep as a biopolitical strategy

Utbildning och hälsa i nationens intresse : Styrningsteknologier och formering av en förädlad befolkning

Epistemic Practices in Professional-Client Partnership Work

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