Co-producing Children´s Sociality in Parent-teacher Conferences

The aim of this article is to describe how parents and preschool teachers talk about children's interactional skills in parent–teacher conferences in the Swedish preschool and how this can be related to socialization processes. The analyses show that children's communicative skills, such a...

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Published in:Scandinavian journal of educational research 2015, Vol.59 (5), p.546
Main Authors: Markström, Ann-Marie, Närvänen, Anna-Liisa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
parent-teacher conferences
preschool
social skills
socialization
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Summary:The aim of this article is to describe how parents and preschool teachers talk about children's interactional skills in parent–teacher conferences in the Swedish preschool and how this can be related to socialization processes. The analyses show that children's communicative skills, such as turn-taking in conversation and co-operation, are considered as important for both parents and teachers and talked about in terms of trouble or success. Children's skills are often assessed by using chronological age as a parameter. Our analysis suggests that the talk about children's interactional skills may be interpreted in terms of deficiency discourses founded primarily on theories in developmental psychology, and that parents, and particularly the teachers, present themselves as socializing agents with regard to children.
ISSN:0031-3831
1470-1170
DOI:10.1080/00313831.2014.965786