Children, Home and School

Regulation, Autonomy or Connection?

Ros Edwards

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134532520
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

In contemporary western societies, there are increasing emphases on children being the responsibility of their parents, contained within the home, and on their compartmentalisation into separate and protected organised educational settings. Thus 'home' and 'school' form a crucial part of children's lives and experiences. This book explores the key institutional settings of home and school, and other educationally linked organised spaces, in children's lives, and the relationships between these. It presents in-depth discussions concerning new research findings from a range of national contexts and focuses on various aspects of children's, and sometimes adult's, own understandings and activities in home and school, and after school settings, and the relationship between these. The contributors assess children from a variety of backgrounds and circumstances and consider how these children see and position themselves as autonomous within, connected to or regulated by home and school. Discussion of the impact of policy and practice developments on the everyday lives of these children is also included.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Students’ rights in British schools Trust, autonomy, connection and regulation
• 2 Educational reform in New Zealand Where were the children?
• 3 School’s Out? Out of school clubs at the boundary of home and school
• 4 Portrait of Callum The disabling of a childhood?
• 5 Adults as resources and adults as burdens The strategies of children in the age of school-home collaboration
• 6 Home and school constraints in children’s experience of socialisation in Geneva
• 7 Minding the gap Children and young people negotiating relations between home and school
• 8 Priming events, autonomy and agency in low-income African-American children’s transition from home to school
• 9 Negotiating boundaries Tensions within home and school life for refugee children
• 10 Young people between home and school
• Afterword