Mandatory learning programme: An offer you can’t refuse
Dr Pernille Juhl explores the extent to which a mandatory learning programme for young minority ethnic children and their parents risks enhancing parents' exclusion in everyday life.
Mandatory learning programme: An offer you can’t refuse
06 Feb 2025, 12:00 – 13:00
This presentation focuses on a Danish study of an early childhood intervention that targets young minority ethnic children and their parents. The intervention, termed ‘mandatory learning programme’, is as an example of current European policies that endeavour to support young children’s learning as key to enhancing their future school performance and fighting inequality and marginalisation.
The study employs document analysis and ethnographic methods to examine the political representations of the problems targeted by the intervention and to investigate how the intervention affects parents’ everyday lives. The findings reveal that the parents involved in the intervention find it challenging to maintain their engagement in education and work; hence concluding, the intervention risks enhancing exclusion from society, despite its aim to prevent exactly that.
This event will be particularly useful for those interested in early childhood, education, inequalities, ethnography.
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Dr Pernille Juhl
Associate Professor
Roskilde University
Dr Pernille Juhl is Associate Professor affiliated with Roskilde University, Department of People & Technology (Psychology). She uses everyday life as a key to explore social psychological phenomena such as young children’s development and parenthood.
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