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dc.contributor.authorHennum, Nicoleen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-16T12:37:13Z
dc.date.available2015-03-16T12:37:13Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.identifier.citationHennum, N. (2014). Developing Child-Centered Social Policies: When Professionalism Takes Over. Social Sciences, 3(3), 441-459.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2076-0760en_US
dc.identifier.otherFRIDAID 1147878en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/2528
dc.description.abstractNo nation today can be understood as being fully child-centered, but many are pursuing social policies heavily favoring children. The emphasis on individual rights and the growth of scientific knowledge underpinning many of these policies have led to the improvement of the lives of a great many children. Paradoxically, these same knowledge bases informing social policies often produce representations and images of children and their parents that are detrimental for both of these groups. Using Norwegian child welfare policies and practices as examples, I will examine some of the possible pitfalls of child-centered praxis. The key question here is one asking whether the scientific frame central to child welfare professionalism has positioned children and parents as objects rather than subjects in their own lives and, in so doing, required them to live up to standards of life defined for them by experts. A central question will involve exploring the extent to which scientific knowledge has erased political and ethical considerations from the field when assessing social problems.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSocial Sciences;3(3)en_US
dc.subjectChild protectionen_US
dc.subjectKnowledge baseen_US
dc.subjectChild-centrismen_US
dc.subjectProfessionalismen_US
dc.titleDeveloping Child-Centered Social Policies: When Professionalism Takes Overen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionThis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci3030441


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