Session Information
19 SES 02 B, Ethnographic Approaches to Researching ‘Troubling’ Categories of Families and their Positioning within Discourses of Schooling
Symposium
Contribution
This symposium brings together researchers from Denmark, Australia and England who are working at the interface between schools and homes. Their papers explore various ways in which families are categoriSed as ‘troubling’ within discourses of schooling. Families that are classified in this way may experience forms of alienation from schooling linked to their experiences of poverty, cultural diversity, colonization and other marginalizing realities. Other families may also be classified in this way for different reasons, such as the demands they make on teachers and school leaders. This collection of papers shows how children and parents accept or resist the categories imposed on them, and how their actual experiences may be misrecognised in the process. The papers incorporate a range of ethnographic methods that involve direct and sustained contact with children and parents. Hence, the symposium provides the opportunity to compare ethnographic approaches to a similarly constructed problem in very different contexts, as well as opportunities to understand and represent different types of families that are constituted as troubling by schooling discourses. Drawing upon resonant although different theoretical and methodological reference points, the papers detail a range of findings that disrupt commonly held assumptions about these families, and their relationship to schooling. Some implications for home-school relations and how they might be reshaped to support young people from ‘troubling’ families are explored.
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