{"id":2684,"date":"2021-04-15T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T06:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jungjungjung.alfahosting.org\/hotspot\/public-space-is-not-an-amusement-park-on-childrens-participation-in-society\/"},"modified":"2021-04-16T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T06:52:12","slug":"public-space-is-not-an-amusement-park-on-childrens-participation-in-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotspotsociety.com\/en\/public-space-is-not-an-amusement-park-on-childrens-participation-in-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Public space is not an amusement park. On children\u2019s participation in society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Barbara Lochner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen the playgrounds closed down, we had to look for alternatives. We were kicked out of public spaces because we were disturbing other people who were trying to work. Because the kids were too loud. […] And then we were shooed away from everywhere because the kids get a bit louder now and then. We were actually driven out of public spaces,\u201d Ms. Anton says in an interview. Closed. Kicked out. Too loud. Shooed away. A bit louder. Should children perhaps be a bit louder amid the pandemic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Anton\u2019s words reveal how childhood is viewed in our society: Being a child is associated with being assigned to places designed specifically for children and with exclusion from the public sphere. Since \u201cpublic spaces\u201d are by definition accessible to everyone, intended for everyone, that must also mean a child is not part of \u201ceveryone,\u201d existing outside the community. \u201cEveryone\u201d is an adult. And yet, we need to include children in society. That\u2019s why \u201cspecial, protected places for children\u201d were carved out of the world of adults (Zeiher\/Zeiher 1991: 245) \u2013 playgrounds, for example, places that are designed with children\u2019s anticipated needs in mind and crafted to give them spatial orientation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The social practice of mainly limiting children\u2019s lives to home and places made specifically for children is \u2013 as Ms. Anton\u2019s remarks show \u2013 accepted in functional terms across society. It\u2019s no problem for things to be that way as long as these places are accessible and available. Children learn that for them, being out in public means they are chiefly in transit to those places. The social practice of \u201cspecial, protected places for children\u201d is founded on the norm that a society that values children includes them and gives them room. But in the current crisis, it has become apparent that this kind of inclusion actually serves to exclude children as well (Jaeggi 2014: 293). Reality no longer lives up to the norm of the society that values children, showing that the norm itself is contradictory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Barbara Lochner is a professor of child education at Erfurt University of Applied Sciences. She is a member of the scientific advisory council on coronavirus pandemic management of the state government of Thuringia and published one of the first studies of child well-being during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020<\/a>. She also co-edited a compilation titled Das Projekt der Sozialen Arbeit. Konturierungen von Disziplin und Profession<\/em> that year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\"\"\n\n\n\n

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