| Titre | Le « métier d'enfant ». Définition sociale de la prime enfance et fonctions différentielles de l'école maternelle | |
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| Auteur | Jean-Claude Chamboredon, Jean Prevot | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1973, 14-3 | |
| Page | 295-335 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Jean-Claude Chamboredon, Jean Prevot: Infancy as an occupation. Social definition of early childhood and differential functions of nursery-schools.
Care-taking of young children is not the only function of nursery-schools and cannot alone explain the diffusion of pre-school enrolment: in order to understand their quick spreading it is necessary to take into account the cultural transformations which have led to the « discovering » of infancy as a pedagogical subject and to the invention of a specific pedagogical matter, i.e. a « child culture », necessary background for a specific educational need. The diffusion of the « children care-taking » need reveals a transformation in the family social functions in connection with urbanization and women's changing activities. Different indicators enable us to define two sets of causalities, the importance of which varies according to class origin; on one hand, the objective factors which determine the « children care-taking » need, and on the other hand, cultural factors leading to define infancy as a worthwhile pedagogical subject ? meaning both the discovery of infancy as a time of training and a new definition of the pedagogical role of early chndhood socialization agents. The analysis of the different cultural processes leading to the transformation of the social definition of infancy and to the change in the definition of mother's functions becomes thus the prime condition for the study of the differential functions filled by nursery-schools for the different social classes. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1973_num_14_3_2215 |
