The Concept of Pastoral Care: A Genealogical Analysis

Follett, John

doi:10.1080/02643948609470524

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“…In contrast to 'enlightenment' theories of the rise of pastoral care, are those that stress its 'social control' function. Follett (1986) looks at the development of pastoral care 'genealogically 1 . Using Foucault's analysis of changes in the relationship between authority, religion and self-discipline (1982), Follett attempts to show how pastoral power invested in religious authority became transformed into the individualized power invested in the more secular paternalistic constitution of the state.…”

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‘Pastoral Care’ as Curriculum Discourse: a study in the reformation of ‘academic’ schooling

Power

1991

International Studies in Sociology of Education

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This paper explores the significance of the recent development of pastoral care as a distinct category of secondary school provision. It argues that existing accounts of the rise of pastoral care fail to take on board the relationship between changes in the school curriculum and their wider context. It also suggests that the separation and construction of pastoral care as distinct from the 'academic' is only one dimension of, and can only be understood in the context of, a changing curriculum. Pastoral care is not a 'new' area, but results from, and was made possible by, a reformulation and fragmentation of what counts as 'academic'. Finally, it proposes that this consolidation of social/personal concerns under the category of 'pastoral care' acquired particular significance in response to tensions created through the reorganization of secondary schooling. Pastoral care provided the means by which the contradictions embedded within comprehensivization could be reconciled.

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Section: The Emergence Of Pastoral Carementioning

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‘Pastoral Care’ as Curriculum Discourse: a study in the reformation of ‘academic’ schooling

Power

1991

International Studies in Sociology of Education

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“…In an earlier article published in this journal (Follett 1986) I attempted to trace the 'genealogy' of the term and concept 'pastoral care', particularly focusing on the etymological and religious influences. I maintained that with the advent of elementary education the pastoral ideal was taken up and used by the early advocates of mass schooling who, on the one hand, portrayed the system as a philanthropic, paternalistic movement, yet on the other hand saw it as a means of exercising a form of social control over the masses.…”

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