Readings for Nov 21st–next week–are now in the Dropbox. I emailed them to you as well. Enjoy and see you soon! CH

Hi everyone,

I wanted to make a brief introduction to my part of the workshop session tomorrow. I will look at those two questions while we look at some excerpts from the interviews I conducted with parents. I will bring in those texts tomorrow but meanwhile, if you have time, can you think about these questions:

What does how parents talk about the way their children are disagreeing with them, or resisting to them, about their out of school time arrangements tell us?

What does the way in which parents evoke their children’s voices saying “I want to play” or broadly wanting to do their own thing, indicate about ideas on how adult-child and parent-child relationship is constructed and what kind of possibilities are imagined regarding how a child’s life must be lived?

If you have time, please also check these guiding authors, theories & frameworks for my inquiry:

Bronwyn, Davies (2014) Listening to Children: Being and Becoming, Routledge:
New York.
-Communities as ‘’emergent assemblages with multiple entry points, often
opposing lines of force’’ (Deleuze and Guattari 1987)
-Emergent, intra-active moments are those that show one’s being open to the
not-yet-known, being open to be affected
-Community as encounters: good and necessary not collapsed into one
another (Badiou 2008)
Ramaekers and Suissa (2011) ‘Parents as ‘educators’: languages of education, pedagogy and ‘parenting’, Ethics and Education, 6,2. 197-212.
-The current trend that situates parents as responsible for ‘’stimulating and
taking responsibility for the intellectual development of their children’’ (Lareau
1989: 172) and therefore framing of parents and parenting in a language that
excludes ‘’the broader sense of what it means to be in a parent-child
relationship’’
-Parents becoming educators who are trying to reach particular learning
outcomes, a process during which the reason why this is done is left behind or
masked, ethical assumptions behind parent-child relationship is unquestioned
Katz, C. (2001) The state goes home: local hyper-vigilance of children and the global retreat of social reproduction, Social Justice, 23,3,47-56.
-Children are invested in with expectations of future outcomes, but the actors
who are responsible for this investment have changed, as the role has been
partitioned to the private sector and the private sphere from the state

See you all tomorrow,

Bengi