Everyday out-of-school lifeworlds look like this: Children’s activities in three global cities

Everyday out-of-school lifeworlds look like this: Children’s activities in three global cities

Childhood, learning & everyday life in three Asia-Pacific cities: Experiences from Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore

• Bartholomaeus, Clare The University of Melbourne
• Chan, Kit Wa Anita The Education University of Hong Kong
• Yelland, Nicola The University of Melbourne
• Karthikeyan, Nanthini Singapore Institute of Technology
• Soo, Li Mei Johannah Nanyang Technological University

• Lee, I-Fang University of Newcastle Australia
• Saltmarsh, Sue The Education University of Hong Kong
• Yelland, Nicola University of Melbourne

Singapore

Springer

2023

• N Students & Student Services
  • NM Student Life & Leisure Activities, Summer Activities; Peer Groups
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Children’s Time Use Out-of-school Activities Children’s Leisure Activities Homework and Tutoring Video Re-enactments Children’s Lifeworlds

• Hong Kong
• Melbourne
• Singapore

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education

An exploration of children’s lifeworlds must necessarily go beyond school, to consider children’s everyday out-of-school lives. In this chapter, we focus on the out-of-school activities of Year 4 (9- and 10-year-old) children in the global cities of Melbourne, Hong Kong, and Singapore. We draw on survey responses from 627 children to consider their activities on weekdays after school and weekends, as well as their enjoyment of these activities. Leisure activities were most common across the cities, which are likely to be easily accessible to children, along with the academic activity of homework. To provide a closer reflection on children’s lifeworlds, we also explore the out-of-school activities of one child in each city, drawing on data (re)produced as a re-enactment of their Thursday afternoons, and a discussion of their regular activities across a week. We suggest similarities amongst the children’s activities may be partly attributed to shared features of their lives, such as their age and positioning as children, temporality, school attendance, and location in a global city, rather than constituting a universal global childhood. We also reflect on the need to consider diversity amongst children within cities to provide a more complex picture of children’s everyday out-of-school lifeworlds. Copyright © 2023 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

• English

Book Chapters

• 9789819904853

• 10.1007/978-981-99-0486-0_6

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2023-10-18