Childhoods in the Mirror. Children, Educational Relationships, and Care Practices in Migrant Parents’ and Childcare Professionals’ Representations

Authors

  • Francesca Crivellaro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15167/2279-5057/ag.2017.6.12.451

Abstract

Grounding on an anthropological research carried out in Ravenna with migrant parents coming from different European and Extra-European countries and childcare professionals, the paper explores ? from a gender perspective ? the imaginaries on childhood emerging from the compared analysis of adults’ representations on parenting, care and educational relationships. Conflicting or alternative interpretations of the child-adult relationship, as well as different views on parenting and care allows disclosing those assumptions and ideologies that make “childhood” a plural, situated, socio-cultural construct.

 

Keywords: childhoods, education and care relationships, migrant parenting and childrearing, gender. 

 

Published

2017-12-01