Education and the Risk Society -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- CHAPTER 1: EDUCATION AND THE RISK SOCIETY: ANINTRODUCTION -- RISK IN HISTORY -- THEORIES OF RISK -- Risk and Reflexive Modernization -- Risk and Governmentality -- Risk and Culture -- RISK AND EDUCATION -- The Risk -- THE CHAPTERS IN THIS BOOK -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2: CHILDREN, THE GREAT RECESSION AND SHIFTING CALCULI OF RISK -- NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENT -- NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE ORIGINS OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS -- THE EMERGING PLUTONOMY -- CHILDREN IN THE PLUTONOMY -- GLOBAL CHILDREN AND THE AUTHORITARIAN NEOLIBERAL ST -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3: EFFICIENCY, STANDARDIZATION AND MITIGATING RISK: THE STRANGE CAREER OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT IN AMERICAN EDUCATION, 1890-2010 -- FREDERICK WINSLOW TAYLOR AND SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT -- SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT AND RISK: EFFICIENCY IN SCHOOLORGANIZATION -- SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT AND RISK: CURRICULUM AND DIFFERENTIATION -- THE LONG PLATEAU: THE 1940S-THE 1980S -- TURNING POINT: A NATION AT RISK -- SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT AND RISK: STANDARDS AND ACCOUNTABILITY -- CONCLUSIONS REGARDING RISKS, SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT ANDEDUCATION TODAY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4: "HAVE A GO AT IT": EMBRACING RISKS AND TEACHING IN LATE MODERN CAPITALISM -- NEOLIBERALISM -- CAPITALISM -- CAPITALISM AND RISK -- METHODOLOGY -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5: RISKY WORDS: Learning the Discourse Practice of Nursing in a Risk Society -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORY - WHAT HAPPENED -- Nursing at ECCC -- THE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION -- FROM PATIENT TO CLIENT -- LECTURE -- CO-CONSTRUCTING THE NURSING NOTE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6: YOUNG CHILDREN AT RISK IN A RISK SOCIETY -- SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF CHILDHOOD -- CHILDREN AT RISK AND THOSE WHO HELP THEM.

BRAIN RESEARCH AND EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS:"PRESCHOOL, THE MOST IMPORTANT GRADE" -- BRINGING YOUNG CHILDREN INTO THE PUBLIC SQUARE: A WYOMING STORY -- Legislating Quality Care and Educatio -- Being Good and Ready for School -- All Ready Reading and Writing -- GOVERNING CHILDREN IN A RISK SOCIETY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7: ON THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF TAKING CARE: ISRAELI EARLY EDUCATION TEACHERS HAVE THEIR SAY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE FIRST STUDY -- "The most important thing is to take care of yourselves" -- "Let's get back to the big tragedy" -- Childhood as Protected Space? -- THE SECOND STUDY -- The Preference for Avoidance -- Allaying Fears - Teachers from the Jewish Sector -- Talking Politics - Teachers from the Arab Sector -- ACCOUNTING FOR DIFFERENCE -- GROWING UP IN A RISKY WORL -- SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8: REGULATING RISK: HEALTH CANADA'S APPROACH TO A PRESCHOOL PROGRAM FOR ABORIGINAL CHILDREN -- INTRODUCTION -- Health Canada -- Head Start -- RISK DISCOURSE -- SETTING -- Daily Practice -- Treatment of Culture -- Funding Allocation -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 9: MOUTHY CITIZENS: LANGUAGE AND RISK IN THE NETHERLANDS -- NEOLIBERALISM AND RISK -- Risk and Multiculturalism -- Risk and Language -- A FEARFUL NETHERLANDS -- Researching Risk and Accountability -- Dutch as a Second Language (NT2) Education -- CONCLUSIONS: FROM INTEGRATION TO EXCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10: BIRDS OF A FEATHER? PEERS, DELINQUENCY,AND RISK -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- Methods -- SETTING: RISKS AROUND EVERY CORNER -- PEERS, DELINQUENCY, AND RACE -- Doubly Diverse Peer Networks: Bridge Builders -- Doubly Diverse Peer Networks: "Saying Hi" and Social Butterflies -- Monocultural -- Delinquent and Conventional Friends -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES.

REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11: MANAGING RISK AND 'GIVING BACK': ASPIRATION AMONG WORKING-CLASS LATINO YOUTH IN SILICON VALLEY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE THREAT OF MARGINALIZATION -- 'AT-RISK' IDENTITIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD CONTEXT -- THE BIOTECHNOLOGY ACADEMY -- THE SOCIAL SPACE OF MORTON HIGH SCHOOL -- PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE COMMON GOOD -- FROM 'LEARNING TO LABOR' TO LEARNING TO 'GIVE BACK' -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12: NEW LEARNING, NEW YOUTH? POLICY,LITERACY, AND THE SUBJECTS OF REFORM INRISK SOCIETY -- INTRODUCTION -- SITES AND METHODS -- POLICY CONTEXT OF DUAL REFORM -- STABILITY, RISK, AND THE 'SUBJECT' OF REFORM -- "FINDING ENGLISHY STUFF": MODAL PRACTICE AND A PARADOXOF REFORM -- RURAL TECH: THE POTENTIAL FOR CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT,WITHOUT INTEGRATION -- CONCLUSION: FLEXIBILITY, IMPROVISATION, AND ENHANCINGLITERACY IN CTE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 13: RISK, MEDIA AND JAPANESE YOUNG PEOPLE -- INTRODUCTION -- RISK AS A CONCEPTUAL TOOL -- Mad Cow Risk -- Nuclear Radiation Risk -- JAPANESE YOUTH AND THE PERCEPTION OF RISK -- RESEARCHING RISK CONSCIOUSNESS AMONG JAPANESE UNIVERSITY YOUTH -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- ENDNOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 14: THE NEW RISKTAKERS: Elective Biographies for Adolescents -- THE RISK SOCIETY -- RISKING "DOING WELL BY DOING GOOD" -- THE DIFFERENCE SOCIALIZATION MAKES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.