Dzieciństwo, „uczenie się” i sprawczość. Autoetnograficznie o doświadczeniach szkoły podstawowej w Waszyngtonie

Abstrakt

In the text, I analyze the participation of students and parents in the everyday world of a primary school in Washington D.C., USA. Based on observation, unstructured interviews and autoethnography, I analyzed three aspects that I considered most important for my experience as a parent and my daughter as a student: welcoming a child to school and creating a school community; agency and democracy at school; and, the participation of children and parents in the school community. I argue that both learning and the inclusion of students in American society takes place in the school through the values transmitted and implemented during the learning process. In this way, I refer to the postulates of creating situations in the educational context in which the well-being and happiness of young people are important elements of school activities. The article is based on a tenmonth participatory observation in Stoddert school where I was the mother of a student and a volunteer.