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From children's services to children's spaces : public policy, children and childhood / Peter Moss and Pat Petrie.

At the turn of the millennium, attitudes and actions towards children are increasingly contradictory and complex. This work explores these apparent contradictions and complexities through a critique of the concept of children's services.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Moss, Peter, 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.
Subjects:
Children > Services for > Great Britain.
Child welfare > Great Britain.
Children > Government policy > Great Britain.
Children > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Child welfare.
Children > Government policy.
Children > Services for.
Children > Social conditions.
Great Britain.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. In praise of many possibilities
  • 2. The need for some theory
  • 3. Children
  • who do we think they are?
  • 4. A case study : the dominant discourse revealed in four English policy documents
  • 5. An alternative discourse
  • 6. Children's culture and some other possibilities
  • 7. Pedagogues and pedagogy
  • 8. The case of Sweden
  • 9. Unfinished business.

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