Making Sense of After‐School Care Dilemmas in Mothers' Stories of After‐School Care in Finland and Sweden |
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| Authors: | Marie Karlsson Satu Perälä‐Littunen Marja Leena Böök Annica Löfdahl Hultman |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Educational Studies, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden;2. Department of Education, Jyv?skyl? University, Jyv?skyl?, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | The study focuses on dilemmas in storied experiences of everyday after‐school care arrangements among Swedish and Finnish mothers. Finland and Sweden, which share a history of strong labour market attachment among women, arrange institutional after‐school care in similar ways. The data consist of interviews with three Swedish and six Finnish mothers. A positioning analysis of four stories shows how decisions related to children's after‐school hours were allocated among different actors. Two reoccurring dilemmas, Competent‐dependent child stories and Unburdened‐deficient mother stories, emerged from the data analysis as related to prevailing moral discourses on childhood and motherhood. |
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| Keywords: | after‐school care childhood motherhood life story moral discourse |
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