Contradictions of modern childhood within and outside school.

Autor/in	Preuss-Lausitz, Ulf
Titel	Contradictions of modern childhood within and outside school.
Quelle	Aus: Growing up in Europe - contemporary horizons in childhood and youth studies. Berlin: deGruyter (1995) S. 221-227Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
Schlagwörter	Erziehung; Forschung; Sozialisation; Kind; Schule; Schulbesuch; Modernisierung; Deutschland
Abstract	"Research on childhood during the the last decades in Germany has ... almost entirely ignored a central part of the everyday life of children: the school. In German childhood research, school as a place of experience does not exist ... (although) nearly all young people in Germany attend school until the age of 18.... The real socialisation effect of schooling remains, to a large extent unknown." The author sees three central meanings of school for children: firstly, at school children acquire certificates, indispensable for later social and economical chances; secondly, at school children can find friends and other social relationships and thirdly, school seems to be a place where social skills are learned. The author therefore concludes "that school is now, objectively and subjectively the most important social 'glue' for upcoming generations in an individualistic and pluralistic society and research that ignores schooling experiences amputates childhood in a very important dimension". The author pleads in this article for the integration of the "presently separate fields of childhood research and school research. This would include not only greater interchange at theoretical and empirical level of scholarly debate, but also a measure of institutional integration between groups and research centres". (DIFP/orig./Kr.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2001_(CD)