About the project
The goal of the project is to provide new and updated knowledge about gender norms and gender practices among children and young people growing up in present-day Norway, and to understand some of the consequences this may have for new patterns of inclusion or marginalisation in school and society.
- How can we understand the relation between changes in gender and changes in the requirements of skills and competence of citizenship in the Norwegian society today?
- How are such requirements transmitted by grown-ups to children in terms of norms and expectations in the areas of school, family and leisure?
Four theoretical and methodological key issues will be adressed:
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reconnecting agency and socialisation
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connecting the discursive and the psycho-social self
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connecting different conceptions of gender in transition
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testing out new methodologies in the study of children
See description of the project (pdf)
Financing
The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council 2008-2011.
Cooperation
The projects is collaborating with the English ESRC-prosect Timescapes (University of London, Birkbeck, London South Bank University, Cardiff University, University of Edinburgh, The Open University and UK Archives).