Children’s spaces in Swedish school-age educare

• 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. 

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogiskt arbete (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogical Work (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Children’s spaces

storage space

activity space

community space

Barn- och ungdomsvetenskap

Child and Youth studies

fritidshem

school-age educare

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

kon (subject category)