Expertise, education and psychological practice

Uitgebreide vaknaam	Expertise, education and psychological practice
Leerdoelen	1. After the course students will be able to describe and explain the key characteristics of the processes of medicalization, psychologization, and educationalization of childhood 2. After the course students will be able to recognize and analyse historical and current manifestations of these processes 3. After the course students will be able to analyse and criticize a historical study into such a process and write an academic report about this 4. After the course students will be able to apply key concepts from the philosophical and sociological theories that were introduced in the analysis of (current) manifestations of such a process.
Omschrijving	One of the most remarkable developments in modern education, parenting and (youth) care is the increasing professionalization. More academics and higher educated professionals get involved. They create a science-base that legitimates what is taught in the training of future professionals. Over the last century professionalization has primarily manifested itself in the way all kinds of child science have come to dominate child-rearing, education and (youth) care. New kinds of expertise create new professional approaches, new techniques (like testing) and new institutions (like child guidance clinics and special schools). These developments create and have created ethical dilemmas. Studying the way these have been handled more or less adequately in the past contributes to our understanding of the nature of these problems in the present. Historians of education analyse historical developments as regards their origin, direction, preconditions, consequences and moving forces. Therefore, in this course we focus on these aspects concerning the various manifestations of professionalization in child-rearing and education. Using a variety of philosophical and sociological frameworks, we discuss the implications of the increasing influence of particular kinds of expertise on the conditions that determine modern education and child- rearing, notably knowledges in the fields of (bio)medicine, child psychiatry, child psychology and neuropsychology. Key processes under study include the (bio)medicalization, psycho(patho)logization, and educationalization of childhood and the role of the child sciences in these processes.
Uren per week	2
Onderwijsvorm	werkcollege (Lectures, discussions and presentations)
Toetsvorm	werkstukken (Individual papers, two small ones on the collective reading material and a larger one on the chosen monograoh (from a list))
Vaksoort	master
Coördinator	prof. dr. B.A.J. Westberg, PhD.
Docent(en)	prof. dr. B.A.J. Westberg, PhD.
Verplichte literatuur	Titel Auteur ISBN Prijs A culture of knowledge production: testing and observation of Dutch children with learning and behavioural problems (1949-1985). Paedagogica Historica, 53(1-2), 7-23. Bakker, Nelleke Between educationalization and appropriation. Selected writings on the history of modern educational systems. Leuven: Leuven University Press (pp. 121-138). Depaepe, Marc Brain disease and the study of learning disabilities in the Netherlands (c. 1950-1985). Paedagogica Historica, 2015 51(3), 350-364. Bakker, Nelleke The medicalization of society. On the transformation of human conditions into treatable disorders. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 (pp. 3-19). Conrad, Peter 10-0- 8018- 8585- X Understanding Pupil Violence: Bullying Theory as Technoscience in Sweden and Norway. Nordic Journal of Educational History, 5(2), 131-149. Boge, Cecilie, & Larsson, Anna When science encounters the child. Education, parenting, and child welfare in 20th-centry America. New York: Teachers College Press, 2006 (pp. 1-34, 77-115, 195-234). Beatty, Barbara, Cahan, Emily D. & Grant, Julia (eds.) 10-0- 8077- 4691- 6
Entreevoorwaarden
Opmerkingen	The monographs on the list are available in the UG library.
Opgenomen in	Opleiding Jaar Periode Type Ma Pedagogische wetenschappen  (Ma Pedagogische wetenschappen (Ethics of Education: Philosophy, History and Law)) 1 semester I b VP