Session Information
19 SES 05, Creativity and Performativity Policies, Programmes and Practices in Europe (Part 1)
Symposium to be continued in 19 SES 06
Time:
2008-09-11
08:30-10:00
Room:
A1 316
Chair:
Geoff Troman
Discussant:
Bob Jeffrey
Contribution
At the heart of the UK Labour Government’s performative social policy discourse has been the notion of social exclusion, a policy which has identified young children (0-4 years) and their parents living in urban areas of high social disadvantage to be particularly at risk. One of the key initiatives introduced to tackle the social exclusion of these families is the multi-agency programme known as Sure Start. The paper draws on findings from a three year ethnographic study located within one urban working class community and recovers the experiences and views of parents and professionals involved with the implementation of a local Sure Start programme. The data were collected through documentation, attendance and observation at meetings, and semi-structured interviews with parents and professionals. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and analysed using open coding from grounded theorising (Glaser and Strauss, 1967). The findings suggest that while working within a highly structured peformative frame of nationally enforced and monitored targets and goals, a meaningful and creative change in the power relationship between professionals and parents was nevertheless engendered. In reflecting analytically on these findings the paper conceptually locates the team's approach within an organisational social capital framework posited by Nahapiet and Ghoshal (1998) and draws on the work of Granovetter (1973) on social capital and Zimmerman et al. (1995) on empowerment to theoretically locate, discuss and model the data.
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