ABSTRACT

While much theoretical work on value takes point of departure in what adults presumably value, this chapter addresses the valuing work children do. Articulating ideals of ‘being social’ and ‘being oneself’ as good forms of personhood, Danish teachers oblige children to enact a good form of ‘being together as a class’, a sociability considered vital to democratic society. Drawing on discussions of value exemplarity, I suggest that Danish school classes may be viewed from an adult perspective as exemplars representing, and to some extent realising, a high-sung value of egalitarian community. For children tasked with living out an idealised social form, the class is a limited social field, one they ‘value’ through myriad small valuing acts lodged in the sociable give and take of everyday class activity. The verb form is crucial here for exploring, not how children take on adult values, but rather what comes to matter to children as they, inescapably themselves, navigate the ‘class’ as an imposed social field and highly valued form of sociability.

摘要

尽管有关价值的许多理论研究都偏离了成年人可能认为的价值，但本章着眼于儿童所做的有价值的工作。丹麦教师明确表达了“成为社会”和“成为自己”作为理想人格的理想，他们要求孩子们采取一种良好的形式，即“作为一个阶级在一起”，这对民主社会至关重要。通过对价值典型性的讨论，我建议从成人的角度将丹麦的学校课程视为代表并在某种程度上实现了平等社区的崇高价值的典型。对于负责实现理想的社会形式的孩子而言，班级是一个有限的社交领域，他们通过在日常课堂活动的社交活动中提出的无数小小的有价值的行为来“珍惜”这一领域。动词形式对于探索至关重要，