Pageant princesses and math whizzes: understanding children's activities as a form of children's work.
Organized children's activities qualify as children's work, in much the same way that school work does. Both produce transferable use value and create capital that contributes to the future production of goods and services. To illustrate this argument, this article draws on qualitative research prim...
| Published in: | Childhood Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 195 - 213 |
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| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
May2009
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | Organized children's activities qualify as children's work, in much the same way that school work does. Both produce transferable use value and create capital that contributes to the future production of goods and services. To illustrate this argument, this article draws on qualitative research primarily based on interviews with the parents of participants in two activities: child beauty pageants and academic enrichment classes. Despite considerable differences in the backgrounds of children who participate in these two types of activities, their parents converge in the reasons they give for enrolling their young children in these activities, and in their focus on their children's future careers and achievements. |
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