Fast Childcare in Public Preschools: The Utopia of Efficiency

ISBN-13: 9780367662912 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 132 str.

Renita Thedvall

Opis

Fast Childcare in Public Preschools presents an ethnographic examination of the implementation of fast-policy management models and the efforts of teachers to use these to improve their work organization, and the frictions this brings.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction

The Lean Management Model in Preschools

Chapter 2 Words

The Policy Words of Preschools and Management Models

Chapter 3 Meetings

Lean Meetings and Preschool Circle Time

Chapter 4 Colour

Colours at Work in Play and in Management

Chapter 5 Flow

Eliminating Waste along the Assembly Line

Chapter 6 Plan

Hoping for an Efficient Future

Chapter 7 Conclusion

The Utopia of Efficiency

O autorze

Renita Thedvall is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research is based in the field of policy and organizational anthropology, with special focus on the anthropology of bureaucracy and the state. She has explored these issues in various field sites from the EU to preschools. She has a particular interest in meetings, a topic she has investigated together with Jen Sandler through an edited volume, Meeting Ethnography (2017, Routledge).