Pregled bibliografske jedinice broj: 702281
Children’s Agency in Everyday Life in an Institutional Preschool Context
Children’s Agency in Everyday Life in an Institutional Preschool Context // Conference Book of Abstracts 5th International Conference "Researching children’s everyday lives: socio-cultural contexts"
Sheffield: University of Sheffield, Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth, 2014. str. 71-71 (ostalo, međunarodna recenzija, sažetak, znanstveni)
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Naslov
Children’s Agency in Everyday Life in an Institutional Preschool Context
Autori
Rengel, Katarina
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni
Izvornik
Conference Book of Abstracts 5th International Conference "Researching children’s everyday lives: socio-cultural contexts"
/ - Sheffield : University of Sheffield, Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth, 2014, 71-71
Skup
5th International Conference "Researching children’s everyday lives: socio-cultural contexts"
Mjesto i datum
Sheffield, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 01.07.2014. - 03.07.2014
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Ostalo
Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija
Ključne riječi
children's agency ; everyday life ; reserach with children ; institutional preschool context
Sažetak
Starting from contemporary conceptualizations of childhood as socially constructed and structured, and children as competent social actors in the construction and determination of their own lives, this paper provides an example of a research with children about their view of decision-making in a Croatian kindergarten. Here, decision-making is considered as part of a broader notion of children’s participation in everyday life, as a way of exercising their agency. Within the qualitative, interpretative approach, a preliminary research was conducted, in which 20 children who attend kindergarten, aged form 5 years and 6 months to 6 years and 5 months were interviewed. The results indicate that children’s conceptualizations of decision-making are on a continuum, ranging from autonomous choice to external regulation. In addition, children seem to be aware of social positioning in institutional contexts, i.e. aware of the asymmetrical relations between them and adults. The interviewed children claim that in the kindergarten they can decide solely about play (will they play, what, with whom, with what, when). Based on the discerned relationship between children’s view of themselves and their opportunities for decision-making, which they situated within the given context, it could be stated that further research should focus on the relationship between social-spatial-temporal structuring of institutional preschool contexts and children’s view of their own position in those contexts.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Pedagogija
