Children – Childhood – Schooling

Project Number: CH1

Country: Switzerland

Institutions/Departments: Research Centre at the University of Teacher Education in Zürich

URL: https://phzh.ch/en/Research/Research-centres/children--childhood--schooling/

Publication/Material: Chapter 7 (Christoph Maeder) and chapter 12 (Anja Sieber Egger and Gisela Unterweger) of The Wiley Handbook of Ethnography of Education (2018)

Project leader and contact person: Anja Sieber anja.sieber@phzh.ch, Gisela Unterweger gisela.unterweger@phzh.ch

Duration: since 2008

Short Description:

Integrating perspectives and approaches from social anthropology and sociology, this research centre conducts ethnographic research on everyday culture in educational settings. The aim is to better understand important aspects of daily life in Swiss public schools and day-care institutions. Using ethnographic methods to explore the constitution and construction of social order as a local and situated practice, researchers analyse rituals, the use and meaning of artefacts, the handling of norms and rules, as well as aspects of the children's peer culture. In addition, the centre carries out research on ICT-use (information and communication technology) in classrooms, and on the evaluation of a mentoring programme. The centre’s most recent project, sponsored by the Swiss National Research Foundation (SNF), investigates practices of differentiation in kindergartens.

Implementation: since 2008

Target Group(s), age & context: Scholars, children/pupils age 0-18

Approach/Method: Research, ethnographic methods

Type: Fieldwork

Funding: Zurich University of Teacher Education; Swiss National Research Foundation (SNF)

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