Child welfare discourses and practices in the Czech lands

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 In the Name of the Czech Nation: Education and Eugenics in the Late Imperial Period -- The crusade for Czech education: from asserting the language to emancipating the nation -- The Naturally developed child: the cornerstone of a new pedagogical thinking -- In opposition to family and society: school as a marginal actor of nation-building -- Raising and educating girls: at the cutting edge of the struggle for new generations -- Theorising common sense in line of eugenics -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2 The Segregation of Disabled and Roma Children in the Czech Lands During the Interwar Period -- Eugenics: a measure for building the nation -- Eugenics in action: Care and Control -- Assimilate not segregate: the policy towards the Roma people -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 The Education for Disabled Children During the First Decades after the WWII in Czechoslovakia: in the Game of Big-time Politics -- Education for all disabled as a part of the resilience of the nation -- Egalitarianism AGAINST elitism: multilevel education for all? -- Networking vs. financial disaster: the miracle of collaborative tactics -- Early socialist period: racing for political capital -- The civic resistance: the curse of the Third Republic -- Official response to the crisis of special education: turn to professionalisation -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Development of a Special Education for Roma Children in Socialist Czechoslovakia: the Pious Desires Towards Total Segregation -- The institutional development of special education for the Roma: towards the universalisation of -- EDUCATION FOR THE ROMA CHILDREN: DEEPENING CONTROL UNDER ALIENS -- SPECIAL CLASSES: THE FIRST STEP AWAY THE MAINSTREAM EDUCATION -- SPECIAL SCHOOLS FOR ROMA CHILDREN: INTEGRATION VS. SEGREGATION IN PRACTICE.