The Vulnerable Child as a Pedagogical Subject

McWilliam, Erica L. (2003) The Vulnerable Child as a Pedagogical Subject. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 19(2), pp. 35-44.

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This paper seeks to examine the ways in which the idea of the child as high vulnerable to risk is constituting new pedagogical subjects, ie, the teacher/caregiver as a professional risk-manager, and the child as a risk-management ‘case’. It does so by indicating how an expanded notion of the duty of care has reconstituted the child as a work-in-progress case rather than 'the concrete subject of [educational] intervention' (Castel, 1991: 288). It examines how the new teacher as a risk-conscious professional caregiver both needs and comes to acquire a new intimacy with the child not as a fleshly body but as a case of risk minimisation.

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ID Code:	1034
Item Type:	Journal Article
Additional URLs:	["field_related_url_type_typename_" not defined]
ISSN:	1057-896X
Subjects:	Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > EDUCATION (130000) > EDUCATION SYSTEMS (130100) > Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori) (130102)
Divisions:	Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Education
Copyright Owner:	Copyright 2003 Corporation for Curriculum Research
Copyright Statement:	Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
Deposited On:	19 Apr 2005
Last Modified:	02 Feb 2012 19:47

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