Abstract
The paper are based on my dissertation (Krab, 2021) which is a study of political and cultural notions of parenthood, parenting practices and parents' relationships with their children's school when children have difficulties in school.
The paper will focus on the research question: How is collaboration with the school experienced and practiced by parents, when children have difficulty in school?
The theoretical inspiration are Smiths institutional ethnography and the concept of work (Smith, 2005) where parents' individually experienced ambivalence, emotional investments and the 'hassle' in everyday life are understood in the context of societal change processes, and institutional orders and organizations.
The empirical study has been carried out through a combination of ethnographic fieldwork in family and school context with three families from different social-economic conditions and through an analyze of documents from a NGO for parents with a focus on notions of parents' work.
Main results: Parents’ work takes place on the school's premises, and parents act on the basis of the ‘family learning and well - being machines' dominant discourses in everyday life. The efforts and expectations of parents are adjusted when parents actively support the discourses of involvement and can act with ‘appropriate commitment’ within these discourses in a very intensive collaboration with the teachers. On the one hand, it shows that the school as an institution has the opportunity to act flexibly in relation to parents, but on the other hand, it shows that parents are treated unequally, since all parents do not encounter this flexibility.
Bibliography.
Krab, J. (2021). Det følsomme og slidsomme skole-hjem-(sam)arbejde: En Institutionel etnografi om forældres arbejde, når børn har det svært i skolen. Roskilde Universitetsforlag. Afhandlinger fra Ph.d-skolen for Mennesker og Teknologi.
Smith, D. E. (2005) Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People Lanham: Alta Mira Press
The paper will focus on the research question: How is collaboration with the school experienced and practiced by parents, when children have difficulty in school?
The theoretical inspiration are Smiths institutional ethnography and the concept of work (Smith, 2005) where parents' individually experienced ambivalence, emotional investments and the 'hassle' in everyday life are understood in the context of societal change processes, and institutional orders and organizations.
The empirical study has been carried out through a combination of ethnographic fieldwork in family and school context with three families from different social-economic conditions and through an analyze of documents from a NGO for parents with a focus on notions of parents' work.
Main results: Parents’ work takes place on the school's premises, and parents act on the basis of the ‘family learning and well - being machines' dominant discourses in everyday life. The efforts and expectations of parents are adjusted when parents actively support the discourses of involvement and can act with ‘appropriate commitment’ within these discourses in a very intensive collaboration with the teachers. On the one hand, it shows that the school as an institution has the opportunity to act flexibly in relation to parents, but on the other hand, it shows that parents are treated unequally, since all parents do not encounter this flexibility.
Bibliography.
Krab, J. (2021). Det følsomme og slidsomme skole-hjem-(sam)arbejde: En Institutionel etnografi om forældres arbejde, når børn har det svært i skolen. Roskilde Universitetsforlag. Afhandlinger fra Ph.d-skolen for Mennesker og Teknologi.
Smith, D. E. (2005) Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People Lanham: Alta Mira Press
| Translated title of the contribution | Forældres mikro-politiske kampe i hverdagslivet i skole-hjem-samarbejdet |
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| Original language | English |
| Publication date | Mar 2023 |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2023 |
| Event | 11th Conference of the European Society on Family Relations: Family Life – Troubling Family Relations and Practices - Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark Duration: 14 Jun 2023 → 16 Jun 2023 Conference number: 11 https://events.ruc.dk/imt-esfr-2022/conference |
Conference
| Conference | 11th Conference of the European Society on Family Relations |
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| Number | 11 |
| Location | Roskilde University |
| Country/Territory | Denmark |
| City | Roskilde |
| Period | 14/06/23 → 16/06/23 |
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Keywords
- schools, courses and institutions
- children and youth