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The Right to Be a Subject of Your Own Life—A Study of Parent-Teacher Conferences in Danish Lower Secondary Education

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  • Clara Ina Severin Steensen

    (Centre for School and Learning, University College Absalon, Trekroner Forskerpark 4, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark)

  • Stine Helms

    (Centre for School and Learning, University College Absalon, Trekroner Forskerpark 4, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark)

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Many recent legislative reforms concerning children have emphasized the importance of involving children and adolescents in accordance with the principles of Article 12 in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This article deals with the rights of youths to express their opinions, feelings, and views in parent-teacher conferences in lower secondary education in Denmark. Both international and Danish research on parent-teacher conferences has shown that students are often objectified and are not provided with real opportunities to participate with their own voices and perspectives. Based on the sociology of Hartmut Rosa, the article explores students’ experiences of parent-teacher conferences as zones of alienation or spaces of resonance. In addition, we draw on Gert Biesta’s concept of subjectification to analyze how the current organization of the conferences largely displaces students’ opportunities to bring themselves into play as subjects of their own lives. The analysis is based on observations and interviews carried out in 2021 and 2022.

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  • Clara Ina Severin Steensen & Stine Helms, 2024. "The Right to Be a Subject of Your Own Life—A Study of Parent-Teacher Conferences in Danish Lower Secondary Education," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-14, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:13:y:2024:i:1:p:66-:d:1323826
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