Overview
- Opens up much-needed critical accounts of wellbeing discourses in education programs and social policy
- Offers new theoretical frameworks for understanding the rise and effects of wellbeing discourses as a solution to social and personal problems
- Showcases a range of grounded studies in diverse contexts that powerfully illustrate a rethinking of wellbeing discourses
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Katie Wright is an Australian Research Council Fellow (DECRA) and lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Her major research interests concern the role and effects of psychological knowledges and therapeutic discourses in social change, cultural life, and educational contexts. Current research projects include a study of public inquiries into childhood maltreatment, a cultural history of adolescence and schooling, and an investigation of past and present understandings of youth mental health and wellbeing. Recent publications include The Rise of the Therapeutic Society: Psychological Knowledge & the Contradictions of Cultural Change (2011).
Julie McLeod is Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2012-2016). She is Deputy Director of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute and an editor of the journal Gender and Education. Her research areas include gender and education, social inequalities, youth identity, and curriculum history. She is currently working on a history of adolescence and citizenship education (1930s-1970s), a history of school design and pedagogical innovation and a new project is on youth identity and educational inequality since 1950. Recent books include Researching Social Change; Qualitative Approaches (2009), and Making Modern Lives: Subjectivity, Schooling and Social Change (2006).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Youth Wellbeing
Book Subtitle: Critical Perspectives
Editors: Katie Wright, Julie McLeod
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-188-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-187-9Published: 14 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1182-5Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-188-6Published: 01 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 222
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Personality and Social Psychology, Positive Psychology, Gender Studies, Childhood, Adolescence and Society