Beyond the Competent Child
Front Matter -- Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The background -- The construction of Nordicness -- The construction of the competent child -- The competent child within childhood research -- The pedagogical, commercial and political context -- Exploring "the competent child" -- Framework of the book -- Notes -- References -- Part I. Childhoods in the Welfare System -- The History of Nordic Welfare Policies for Children -- Introduction -- What is Nordicness? The Roots of the Nordic Welfare States -- The Three Historical Phases of the Nordic Welfare State -- Origins of the Welfare State and Child Protection -- The Nordic Welfare State and its Children -- Post-industrial Nordic Welfare States and Children -- The Nordic welfare policies for children -- Laws and Policies of Child Protection -- Policies of Provision: Childcare Policies -- Policies on Participation: Laws on Children's Rights and the Implementation of International Agreements -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Children and Youth as Citizens: symbolic participants or political actors? -- Introduction -- Children and youth as citizens in Norway -- Children as social participants on "their own terms" -- The handball team at "Outer Island" - Just for fun? -- Youth Councils - efforts and ambiguities -- Internet Café - a case story -- Participation - a purpose or a mean? -- Constructing the competent participant -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- From Welfare Policy towards Risk Politics? -- Finland as a welfare state -- The principle of provision -- The principle of participation -- The principle of protection -- Media - the engine of moral panic? -- Some Guidelines of the National Policy -- Transition of historical formation? -- Notes -- References -- From Present to Past: Discourses of Remembered Childhoods.