Childhood Narrated and Negotiated: Children's, Parents' and Teachers' Views on Childhood

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Bjørg Kjær

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In this paper I shall demonstrate how different approaches to childhood interact with the childhood narratives of children, parents, and school teachers. Childhood is narrated and constructed by different agents. In Pierre Bourdieu-terms we have a field of agents, discussing the definition of the Child. In this discussion, professionals have striven to achieve orthodoxy, i.e. the privilege of being experts whose utterances have more power than those of others.

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