ERIC Number: EJ1101668
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
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Children's Friendships in Diverse Primary Schools: Teachers and the Processes of Policy Enactment
Vincent, Carol; Neal, Sarah; Iqbal, Humera
Journal of Education Policy, v31 n4 p482-494 2016
Drawing on data from a project exploring children's and adults' friendships across social class and ethnic difference, this paper focuses on the enactment of national and institutional policy around children's friendships as realized in three primary schools in diverse urban areas in London. Through a focus on the way in which social and emotional learning (SEL) and teachers' understandings of children's friendships seek to govern children's friendship behaviours, we turn to Foucault's work to explore how power shapes relations between policy frameworks and teachers' practices, and between those who teach and those who are taught. We discuss the disciplinary potential of SEL and teachers' "common sense" understandings of children's friendships, but conclude by noting possibilities for teachers to create spaces in which all children can safely explore the nature of friendships.
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Friendship, Policy Formation, Ethnic Diversity, Social Development, Emotional Development, Educational Practices, Teacher Attitudes, Group Dynamics, Social Psychology, Child Behavior, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (London)
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