Pat Petrie

From Children's services to Children's Spaces: Public Policy, Children and Childhood

1. In Praise of Many Possibilities 2. The Need for some Theory 3. Children - who do we Think they Are? 4. A Case Study: the Dominant Discourse Revealed in Four English Policy Documents 5. An Alternative Discourse 6. Childrens Culture and some other Possibilities 7. Pedagogues and Pedagogy 8. The Case of Sweden 9. Unfinished Business

A new deal for children? : re-forming education and care in England, Scotland and Sweden

PART One: International comparisons of social and educational reforms: The study Contexts PART Two: Bringing childcare services into education: England Scotland Sweden PART Three: A comparative overview and further directions: Looking cross-nationally Endnotes.

Foster Care: A Role for Social Pedagogy?

Social pedagogy, still an unfamiliar concept in Britain, is concerned with education in its widest sense, encompassing but going much beyond formal school-based learning. Pat Petrie reports on studies of social pedagogy in four countries conducted at the Thomas Coram Research Unit and discusses potential benefits of the social pedagogic approach for fostering in England. She argues that this would fit well with developing English policy towards children and children in care and can bridge the tensions inherent in foster care, combining a personal, relational approach with an insistence on reflection.

Schol-age child care and equal opportunities

Abstract The work involved in looking after children may be paid or unpaid, at home or in institutions outside the home. The main emphasis of this article is on mothers as unpaid care workers for their own school-age children. It describes the nature of child care in general terms, but looks especially at school children and their specific dependencies. In particular it focuses on one public intervention towards children and the ways in which this affects their mothers: namely, the state requirement that children between certain ages should be educated, together with the provision of schools to meet this requirement. This provides a starting point for a discussion of ways and means of extending care provision for school-age children and releasing mothers from their marginalised position in the labour force.

‘A New Deal for Children?’ – what happened next: a cross-national study of transferring early childhood services into education

Between 1996–1998, England, Scotland and Sweden moved responsibility for all early childhood education and care (ECEC) and school-age childcare (SACC) services from welfare into education. Followin...