Lifeworlds of nine- and ten-year-old children: out-of-school activities in three global cities

Title
Lifeworlds of nine- and ten-year-old children: out-of-school activities in three global cities
Publication Date
2021-06
Author(s)
Yelland, Nicola
Muspratt, Sandy
Bartholomaeus, Clare
Karthikeyan, Nanthini
Wa Chan, Anita Kit
Leung, Vivienne Wai Man
Lee, I-Fang
Soo, Li Mei Johannah
Lim, Kam Ming
Saltmarsh, Sue
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4375-7073
Email: ssaltmar@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ssaltmar
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/14767724.2020.1816921
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/57687
Abstract

There has been much discussion about the high performance of East Asian students in international high stakes testing, but little attention has been paid to their lifeworlds beyond school. In this article we explore findings from a survey of 627 Year 4 children (nine and ten years old) in three global cities (Hong Kong, Singapore, and Melbourne), focusing on their out-of-school activities as one aspect of their lifeworlds. The findings indicate that the most common activities in each location were comparable. Since the activities in the three locations were largely similar, the findings problematise East/West binaries which have been a feature of research and discussions in this area.

Link
Citation
Globalisation, Societies and Education, 19(3), p. 259-273
ISSN
1476-7732
1476-7724
Start page
259
End page
273

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