Practicing the plastic brain

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Neuro-stuffed parenthood? Discursive constructions of good parenthood in relation to neuroDiscourse in Flemish social policy documents addressing parents: a case study

“…Choudhury et al, 2012; Thornton, 2011) and in discourse that addresses parents regarding children’s brain development (see e.g. Van de Werff (2018) for a study in the context of the Netherlands) and also at the level of social policy (see e.g. Macvarish, 2016).…”

“…Critical research about the implications of neurodiscourse in relation to parenthood and the parent-child relationship has been done from the perspective of neuro-ethics (see Hens et al, 2017; Van de Werff, 2018), psychology (see Busso and Pollack, 2015), nursing theory (see Einboden et al, 2013), communications studies (see Thornton, 2011), human geography (see Pykett, 2015) and, to a large extent, sociology; for instance (but not exclusively), via work of scholars of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies and the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships in the UK (see, inter alia, Broer and Pickersgill, 2015; Edwards et al, 2015, 2016; Macvarish, 2016). From the perspective of educational philosophy, which is my field of research, substantial accounts with a specific focus on the relation between parenthood and the parent–child relationship on the one hand, and neuroDiscourse on the other, are missing.…”