Education Parenting and Mental Health Care in Europe

This edited collection investigates from a sociological perspective what it means to create an autonomous individual through a novel exploration of three central fields of sociology: education mental health care and parenting.By linking these three aspects through their contribution to the building of an autonomous child the volume analyses the intersecting roles of parent teacher and caregiver as well as the transformations in identities of child pupil and patient to understand the construction and repair of autonomy. Using a comparison of various case studies across Scandinavian English-speaking and French-speaking countries chapters explore why personal autonomy is so important in many societies and demonstrate the conceptual and practical challenges the idea brings. Ultimately the book provides an innovative contribution to the fields of educational sociology and the philosophy of education as well as parenting studies and the sociology of mental health by making the case for taking autonomy and its paradoxes seriously.This cross-disciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars researchers and postgraduate students working in sociology and the philosophy of education parenting mental health and child development more broadly. Those with a focus on the study of individualistic societies will also find the volume of use.The Open Access version of this book available at taylorfrancis has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.