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Children’s spaces in Swedish school-age educare
University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, Division for Educational Science and Languages.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6062-0565
2021 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The aim with this paper is to investigate children’s spaces in Swedish school-age educare settings.The theoretical framework for this project is sociology of childhood focusing children’s agency and as participators equal adults in questions that engage and concern them, and social geography investigating children’s spaces in everyday life and the identity of the setting. The project is designed as a compressed and multi-sited ethnographical study in twelve different settings. Each setting was followed for one week with field observations, informal conversations and interviews with 174 children in 45 groups and 53 staff in 12 groups. The findings show three types of spaces in school-ageeducare, Storage space, Activity space and Community space, theses three types are different according to children’s agency and to the identity of the setting. The Storage space is characterized ofchildren left to themselves with few affordances from staff. Activity space is characterized of teacherled activities on a dedicated timeslot each day, focusing activities as sports, creative, play, music and outdoors in line with curriculum content. The Community space are characterized of children as active actors in constructing content, activities and routines. 

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2021. p. 8-9
Keywords [en]
Children’s spaces, storage space, activity space, community space
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Pedagogical Work
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Child and Youth studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-17932OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-17932DiVA, id: diva2:1620654
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3rd WERA-IRN: Extended Education Conference 2021, Virtual Conference, University of Iceland, September 23-25, 2021
Available from: 2021-12-16 Created: 2021-12-16 Last updated: 2021-12-16Bibliographically approved

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