Harriet Strandell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harriet Strandell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harriet |
| FAMILY NAME | Strandell |
| SIGNATURE | STRANDELL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mobile phones in children's after-school centres
This article discusses the influence of virtual mobility on place. It examines the use of mobile phones in an after-school centre in Helsinki, Finland and the role of mobile phones in negotiations on space, control and boundaries. It investigates the function of the mobile phone in the coordination of children’s mobility in and out of the centre. It shows how the children make use of the capacity of mobile phones to connect to people and places p…
After‐school Care as Investment in Human Capital – From Policy to Practices
After‐school reform in Finland is analysed as a case of state intervention in childhood and of inscribing political goals in an activity with children. The paper asks what understandings of children and childhood are communicated in and through the reform and its dispersed implementation. Theoretically, the paper is informed by new ways of governing in the late 20th century and by the concept of the social investment state. These are combined wit…
From Structure-Action to Politics of Childhood
This article discusses the main developments in Finnish childhood sociology from the 1980s to contemporary times. The early phase, influenced by historical and ethnological understandings of childhood, constituted and legitimated the sociological study of children and childhood, by understanding children as social actors and childhood as a permanent structure of society. A divide between actor- and structure-oriented approaches characterized this…
After-school Hours and the Meanings of Home
School children's use of their home during the after-school hours has become a controversial question in Finnish society. The article discusses cultural conceptions and uses of home as a specific space for children by comparing two different sets of empirical data: children's accounts of their after-school spaces and media debate on the same topic. Activated public concern in media accounts is analysed as a process of re-defining the properties o…
Doing Reality With Play
This article presents results from an ethnographic study on children's everyday life in Finnish daycare centres. It raises the question of the relation between play and real life. Play and playfulness are analysed as communicative resources children use in creating and reproducing everyday routines, not only inside play activities, but also in other kinds of situations occurring during an ordinary day. The free-floating social interaction of the …
After-school Hours and the Meanings of Home
School children's use of their home during the after-school hours has become a controversial question in Finnish society. The article discusses cultural conceptions and uses of home as a specific space for children by comparing two different sets of empirical data: children's accounts of their after-school spaces and media debate on the same topic. Activated public concern in media accounts is analysed as a process of re-defining the properties o…
From Structure-Action to Politics of Childhood
This article discusses the main developments in Finnish childhood sociology from the 1980s to contemporary times. The early phase, influenced by historical and ethnological understandings of childhood, constituted and legitimated the sociological study of children and childhood, by understanding children as social actors and childhood as a permanent structure of society. A divide between actor- and structure-oriented approaches characterized this…
Mobile phones in children's after-school centres
This article discusses the influence of virtual mobility on place. It examines the use of mobile phones in an after-school centre in Helsinki, Finland and the role of mobile phones in negotiations on space, control and boundaries. It investigates the function of the mobile phone in the coordination of children’s mobility in and out of the centre. It shows how the children make use of the capacity of mobile phones to connect to people and places p…
Doing Reality With Play
This article presents results from an ethnographic study on children's everyday life in Finnish daycare centres. It raises the question of the relation between play and real life. Play and playfulness are analysed as communicative resources children use in creating and reproducing everyday routines, not only inside play activities, but also in other kinds of situations occurring during an ordinary day. The free-floating social interaction of the …
Doing Reality With Play
This article presents results from an ethnographic study on children's everyday life in Finnish daycare centres. It raises the question of the relation between play and real life. Play and playfulness are analysed as communicative resources children use in creating and reproducing everyday routines, not only inside play activities, but also in other kinds of situations occurring during an ordinary day. The free-floating social interaction of the …
After-school Hours and the Meanings of Home
School children's use of their home during the after-school hours has become a controversial question in Finnish society. The article discusses cultural conceptions and uses of home as a specific space for children by comparing two different sets of empirical data: children's accounts of their after-school spaces and media debate on the same topic. Activated public concern in media accounts is analysed as a process of re-defining the properties o…
From Structure-Action to Politics of Childhood
This article discusses the main developments in Finnish childhood sociology from the 1980s to contemporary times. The early phase, influenced by historical and ethnological understandings of childhood, constituted and legitimated the sociological study of children and childhood, by understanding children as social actors and childhood as a permanent structure of society. A divide between actor- and structure-oriented approaches characterized this…
After‐school Care as Investment in Human Capital – From Policy to Practices
After‐school reform in Finland is analysed as a case of state intervention in childhood and of inscribing political goals in an activity with children. The paper asks what understandings of children and childhood are communicated in and through the reform and its dispersed implementation. Theoretically, the paper is informed by new ways of governing in the late 20th century and by the concept of the social investment state. These are combined wit…
Mobile phones in children's after-school centres
This article discusses the influence of virtual mobility on place. It examines the use of mobile phones in an after-school centre in Helsinki, Finland and the role of mobile phones in negotiations on space, control and boundaries. It investigates the function of the mobile phone in the coordination of children’s mobility in and out of the centre. It shows how the children make use of the capacity of mobile phones to connect to people and places p…
Children's Rights and Participation (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (2 works)