Children's Perspectives on their Education

Bibliographic Data

ID3109547
AuthorsCleopatra Montandon (University of Geneva, corresponding author), Françoise Osiek (University of Geneva)
Year1998
Volume5
Issue3
Pages247-263
Publication date1998-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChildhood (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0907-5682 • E-ISSN: 1461-7013
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0907568298005003002
OpenAlexW2042647477
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

Sociologists of education were among the first to deal with pupils' perspectives as regards their school life. However, children's points of view on their global educational experience are still rarely explored by sociologists. Although the sociology of childhood is growing fast, it more often covers what adults do to children rather than what children do with what adults do to them. This article discusses some methodological issues involved in the study of children and presents a conceptual framework for approaching the children's points of view on their own education. Based on indepth interviews of 67 11- to 12-year-old children from Geneva it deals more particularly with their experience of parental and teacher educational practices and organization. It presents the types of experience these children have of their school and family education and socialization, based on the subtle analyses they make of their parents' and teachers' roles and authority, the emotions they experience vis-a-vis their parents' and teachers' educational practices, and the strategies they develop to face their parents' and teachers' actual or anticipated demands

Developmental psychology · Pedagogy · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Sociology of Education · Early Childhood Education and Development · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology

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