Fra Brugerperspektiver til Konflikter om Børns skoleliv

Abstract

My research started in an interest in how psy- chology can be used in people’s everyday lives

and with a study about users (parents) experiences with psychological support (Pedagogical Psychological Counselling). The first thing parents told was that the problems was about something else from what the professionals thought – and the research was sent off in the many contexts in which children live their everyday life, and different adults collaborate and share conflicts about the children. To understand these conflicts the research also got a focus on the meanings for the children, their communities, conduct of everyday life and subjectivity. Analyses of the multiple perspectives illustrated how the problems were displaced between contexts. Instead of displacing social problems and positioning some parties as ‘users’, we may analyze the multifaceted ‘cases’ and conflicts of the school and the situated inequalities in relation to assert oneself in these conflicts? Today, I am concerned with the content of the conflicts, and how the children’s personal dilemmas and ‘agency’ can be analyzed as anchored in their participation in conflictual social practice. In this way, the article aim to illustrate how personal conflicts are interwoven with social and political con- flicts – conflicts about children appear to pose conflicts for the children.