Doing Pupil After Class—Videography at a Children's University

Authors

  • Alexandra König Universität Duisburg-Essen
  • Miriam Böttner Bergische Universität Wuppertal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-16.2.2242

Keywords:

videography, out-of-school learning facility, socialization, generational order, childhood, doing pupil

Abstract

Based on video data collected at a children's university we discuss how generational order is produced and shaped into different constellations. As a theoretical reference point we use the concept of "socialization as generational ordering" (BÜHLER-NIEDERBERGER, 2011; BÜHLER-NIEDERBERGER & TÜRKYILMAZ, 2014). Analysis of the initial sessions of two different courses at this out-of-school learning facility shows three things: First, how children grasp, work out, and modify rules in such an unfamiliar context and how this makes them accomplices in the production of generational order. Second, how children paradoxically are "doing pupil" as well in this out-of-school setting, revealing the dominance of "school order." Third, by a contrastive analysis of courses, a certain variety of these ordering processes can be found. This variety concerns forms of knowledge and the ways children are addressed; however, the dominance of the "school order" is hardly challenged.

URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs150263

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Author Biographies

Alexandra König, Universität Duisburg-Essen

Alexandra KÖNIG (*1972), Dr. phil., ist Akademische Rätin für empirische Sozialforschung, mit dem Schwerpunkt Soziologie sozialer Ungleichheiten und Lebensphasen an der Universität Wuppertal. Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte: Kindheits- und Jugendsoziologie, Bildungssoziologie, Lebensstil- und Ungleichheitsforschung.

Miriam Böttner, Bergische Universität Wuppertal

Miriam BÖTTNER (*1983), MA Soziologie, Politikwissenschaften, Romanistik, ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Promovendin im BMBF-Projekt "Selbstorientierung und selbstständiges Lernen: eine Analyse von Sozialisations- und Lernumgebungen von Grundschulkindern" (GRÄSEL, BÜHLER-NIEDERBERGER & KÖNIG, 2011-2014) an der Universität Wuppertal. Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte: Kindheits- und Jugendsoziologie, Sozialisations- und Ungleichheitsforschung, Videografie.

Published

2015-03-10

How to Cite

König, A., & Böttner, M. (2015). Doing Pupil After Class—Videography at a Children’s University. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-16.2.2242