Children as potential – a window to cultural ideals, anxieties and conflicts

Gilliam, Laura; Gulløv, Eva

doi:10.1080/14733285.2019.1648760

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“…(4) There are numerous studies on children commuting to schools, especially those living in peripheral areas (Catling, 2005;Parnell, Patsarika, 2011;de Kadt et al, 2014;Lin et al, 2014;Zelinsky, Kubak, 2014;Kučero et al, 2015;Loo, Lam, 2015;MacKenzieet et al, 2017;Stephens wt et al, 2017;Gilliam, Gulløv, 2019). However, the most frequently studied issue is potential accessibility to workplaces.…”

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Accessibility to various destinations by public and private transport in Szczecin

Goliszek

Wójcik

Duma

2022

Prace Komisji Geografii Komunikacji PTG

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The analysis presented herein is aimed at indicating disparities in accessibility to some selected travel destinations by means of private and public transport in the city of Szczecin. Accessibility is a simple measure of potential interactions between two points in space. For the purpose of the study, an original model of an individual transportation system has been developed using Google Maps API data. In order to do so, some GTFS and pedestrian-related data have been downloaded. To calculate source-destination travel times at certain times of the day for four different parameters of pedestrian motion speed, ArcGIS Network Analyst software has been used. Five research methods have been applied: the proximity measure, the population percentage measure, the cumulative accessibility measure, the potential accessibility index and the potential accessibility quotient. In order to develop an ultimate accessibility rating for housing estates in Szczecin, a synthetic accessibility measure has been developed. The synthetic accessibility measure consists of 9 standardised components/values for both public and private (car) transport. The potential accessibility to the population is part of the synthetic accessibility sub-measure. The isochrones have been drawn in order to analyse the workplaces and secondary schools. Moreover, data concerning accessibility to the nearest kindergarten, primary school, hospital, cinema, shopping centre and indoor swimming pool have also been taken into consideration when calculating the synthetic measure. In the case of potential accessibility measures, it is usually the highest in the city centre. Obviously, the nearer a particular facility, the higher its accessibility measure is. The only disparities between the measures for public and private transport are observed in areas which are not covered by the public transportation network.

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Accessibility to various destinations by public and private transport in Szczecin

Goliszek

Wójcik

Duma

2022

Prace Komisji Geografii Komunikacji PTG

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“…Mass education in schools demonstrates how the greater focus on social conduct, the increasing integration, the division of labour, and the new nation-state imaginaries led to a growing dependency of emergent state-based societies and their influential groups on the upbringing of new generations-and thus the education of children (Gilliam and Gulløv 2022). In his analysis of historical changes in perceptions of children in Western Europe, Elias contended that this spread of schools defunctionalised parents.…”

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‘This Society Has Taken Me.’ Intensive Parenting and Fragile Belonging among Second-Generation Minority Danish Parents

Gilliam

2022

Genealogy

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Based on life-history interviews and fieldwork among second-generation minority Danish parents from different ethnic backgrounds, this article explores changes in parenting norms and practices between first-generation and second-generation minority Danish parents. The second-generation parents generally experience that, compared to their own parents and contemporary first-generation parents, they have a more ‘open’ and ‘engaged’ relationship with their children and their schools, making them feel intimately shaped by Danish society. Contesting integration and governmentality approaches, the article takes an Eliasian figurational approach, illuminating the historical changes in and current characteristics of the relationship between state, school, children, and parents that shapes the Danish ‘state-school figuration’. It explores how these second-generation minorities’ entanglement in the interdependencies of this figuration—first as children and later as parents—makes it valuable and sensible for them to engage in the ‘intensive parenting’ applauded in Danish schools. Yet, due to these interdependencies, their intensive parenting involves both distancing themselves from and acting as cultural brokers for first-generation parents, as well as using their own insider knowledge to protect their children from negative influence, stigmatisation, and discrimination.

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“…More particularly, and inspired by anthropological and sociological child research, we wanted to know how children and young people perceive places, opportunities and social commitments as a way to understand their various motives and motivations in relation to local communities. However, we also wanted to explore enculturation processes and the social dynamics of wider society from a new angle (Toren 1993;Levinson, Foley & Holland 1996;Corsaro 1997;Gilliam & Gulløv 2019). This called for an ethnographic study based in a provincial community, and we, therefore, decided to conduct our fieldwork in the municipality of Tønder in the southwestern part of Denmark, as this region is marked by a high emigration rate among young people.…”

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Mobility and belonging – A case from provincial Denmark

Gulløv

2020

Journal of Pedagogy

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Young people in rural areas are gradually convinced that they have to leave their homes for education. They move, and hereby amplify the problem of local economic and demographic decline. The article explores the role of education as well as the social dynamics behind this process in a minor community in Denmark. Drawing on children and young people’s perspectives, the article examines how children gradually come to doubt on the local opportunities and become alienated to local lifeforms. Based on an anthropological fieldwork, the authors show how day-care institutions, schools and youth education play an important role in this process.

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Children as potential – a window to cultural ideals, anxieties and conflicts

Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

Accessibility to various destinations by public and private transport in Szczecin

Accessibility to various destinations by public and private transport in Szczecin

‘This Society Has Taken Me.’ Intensive Parenting and Fragile Belonging among Second-Generation Minority Danish Parents

Mobility and belonging – A case from provincial Denmark

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