A presente tese de doutorado tem como objetivo investigar as dimensões de uma Arte/Educação Humanista, dentro do universo da Creche/Pré-Escola Oeste da Universidade de São Paulo, trazendo como problemática o que em vista da diversidade e visibilidade na Creche/Pré-Escola Oeste que pode conferir-lhe o status de um patrimônio cultural e imaterial da USP e referência de Educação Infantil. Partindo da hipótese que o processo educativo, e os desdobramentos a partir dos projetos de trabalho, como ambientes de aprendizagem pela Arte, contribuíram para a formação das crianças, famílias e educadores, com um perfil de protagonistas culturais dentro de um processo de reprodução interpretativa e criativa, por meio da Cultura de Pares. A tese relata algumas propostas pedagógicas educativas em comunhão com a Arte, tomando também a investidura política em luta pela reabertura de seu espaço, após o fechamento arbitrário pela reitoria da USP em janeiro de 2017. Optou-se pela metodologia de pesquisa qualitativa a partir de um estudo de caso de caráter exploratório e analítico, mediante o contexto em que a Creche Oeste, como objeto de pesquisa, se encontra imerso. Foi escolhido o sistema Imagem Watching de Robert Ott para a condução da narrativa do pensamento, para externar o conhecimento organizado sobre a Creche Oeste, analogamente ao processo de apreciação de uma obra de arte, apontando pressupostos e sugestões para um arcabouço teórico de referenciais da Criança e da Infância. / The present thesis aims to investigate the dimensions of an Art / Education Humanist, within the Nursery/Pre-School Creche Oeste of the Universidade de São Paulo, bringing as problematic considering the diversity and visibility in the Nursery/Pre-School Creche Oeste, that confers the status of a cultural and immaterial heritage of USP and reference of Early Childhood Education. Given the hypothesis that the educational process, and the unfolding of work projects, as learning environment by the Art, contributed to the children, families and educators formation, with a profile of cultural protagonists within a process of interpretive reproduction and creative, through the culture of peers. The thesis reports some educational pedagogical proposals along with the Art, also taking into account the political investiture in a fight for the reopening of its space, after the arbitrary closure by the rectory of the USP in January of 2017. The methodology of qualitative research was chosen from a study-case of exploratory and analytical characteristics, in which the Creche Oeste, was chosen as the research object. The Robert Ott\'s Image Watching system was chosen to conduct a narrative construction, to extern the organized knowledge about the Creche Oeste, similarly to the appreciation process of artwork, pointing out assumptions and suggestions for a theoretical framework references of Children and Childhood.

This study explores the peer group understandings of five male friends between the ages of six and eight years and seeks to examine the ways in which the group’s social dynamics interact to define, regulate and maintain dominant and collective understandings of masculinities. Within a self-selected affinity context, and drawing on their lived and imagined experiences, the boys’ enact and interpret their social worlds. Adopting the principles of ethnography within a framework of feminist poststructuralism and drawing on theories of ‘groupness’ and gender(ed) embodiment, the boys’ understandings of masculinities are captured and interpreted. The key analytic foci are directed towards examining the role of power in the social production of collective schoolboy knowledges, and understanding the processes through which boys subjectify and are subjectified, through social but also bodily discourses. The boys’ constructions of peer group masculinities are (re)presented through a narrative methodology which foregrounds my interpretation of the group’s personal and social relevances and seeks to be inductive in ways that ‘bring to life’ the boys’ stories. The study illuminates the potency of peer culture in shaping and regulating the boys’ dominant understandings of masculinity. Within this culture strong essentialist and hierarchical values are imported to support a range of gender(ed) and sexual dualisms. Here patriarchal adult culture is regularly mimicked and distorted. Underpinned by constructions of ‘femininity’ as the negative ‘other’, dominant masculinities are embodied, cultivated and championed through physical dominance, physical risk, aggression and violence. Through feminist poststructural analysis which enables a theorising of the boys’ subjectivities as fluid, tenuous and often characterised by contradiction and resistance, there exists a potential for interrupting and re-working particular masculinities. Within this framework, more affirmative but equally legitimate understandings and embodiments can be explored. The study presents a warrant for working with early childhood affinity groups to disrupt and contest the dominance and hierarchy of peer culture in an effort to counter-act broader gendered and heterosexist global, state and institutional structures. Framing these assertions is an understanding of the peer context as not only self-limiting and productive of hierarchies, but enabling and generative of affirmative subjectivities.

This thesis examines how very young children (1-3 years) organize participation during naptime, a recurrent activity of everyday life in preschools. Focus is on how these children practice their social and cultural understandings of the local order and thus establish various local orders as part of how they shape their peer cultures and the routines of the naptime. An ethnomethodological and conversation analytic (EM/CA) perspective is used to explore the organisation of the local orders oriented to by the children in their participation during naptime. A special interest is directed at how small children use embodied actions and various semiotic resources as they actively take part in this preschool routine. The data, collected during fieldwork with participant observations, consist of video recordings and field notes. The recordings are analysed using EM/CA methods, including detailed attention to embodied features of interaction along with spatial and material arrangements. Transcriptions of interaction comprise representations of both verbal and visual aspects, e.g. gestures, gaze and movement through the room. The study shows that naptime involves more than sleep. It is demonstrated how very young children, through interaction with each other and the pedagogues, are active agents in sustaining, creating, re-creating and challenging the local orders of naptime. Through embodied actions and the use of various semiotic resources, the children are able to create time and space for their own peer cultures within this institutional routine. Overall, the study sheds light on the sophisticated ways in which very young children use their knowledge of cultural and institutional routines – the spatial organisation of sleep mattresses, artefacts (e.g. blankets, pacifiers and soft toys) and the sequential structures of the naptime – to constitute spaces for play and joyful interaction with peers and pedagogues. In spite of their sometimes limited vocal language, these very young children are able to use a variety of semiotic resources to constitute their own social life within naptime, often through secondary adjustments to institutional and adult structured order.

I Läroplan för förskolan, Lpfö 18 (2018) beskrivs leken som grundläggande för barns lärande, utveckling och välbefinnande. Däremot uttrycks det inte i läroplanen hur begreppen inkludering och exkludering bör kopplas till barns lek samt hur detta kan prägla såväl barngruppen som leken. Utifrån detta resonemang är syftet med denna studie att undersöka hur inkludering och exkludering yttrar sig mellan barn i den fria leken samt lyfta fram förskolans förebyggande arbete gällande utanförskap. Detta även genom att studera förskollärarnas agerande i förhållande till begreppen inkludering och exkludering i barns fria lek. För att besvara syftet är studiens frågeställningar följande: 1. Hur yttrar sig inkludering och exkludering i förskolans rådande barnkultur i den fria leken? 2. Vilka strategier används av barn för tillträde samt exkludering i den fria leken? 3. Hur agerar barnen om förskolläraren avbryter en pågående fri lek? 4. Hur yttrar sig förskollärarens agerande under barns fria lek, utifrån ett inkluderande och exkluderande perspektiv?   I studien används en kvalitativ metod, i form av observationer för att kunna skapa en inblick i det sociala samspel som sker i förskolemiljön. Detta fördjupas utifrån Corsaros barndomssociologiska perspektiv.   Studiens resultat visar att det förekommer en acceptans kring barns användande av såväl inkluderande som exkluderande situationer i den fria leken, genom exempelvis användandet av tillträdesstrategier. Vidare visar resultatet att förskollärarens agerande och närvaro vid barns fria lek både kan ha en positiv och en hämmande inverkan på barns inkludering och exkludering av varandra.

[pt] Infância e escolarização são o foco dessa tese que se situa no campo da educação, com interlocução com a filosofia, a sociologia e a política. Com o objetivo de investigar a experiência da infância nas instituições, apoia-se, nos estudos da filosofia, especialmente no trabalho de Walter Benjamin e seu conceito de infância e de experiência; na sociologia da infância, campo marcado pelo reconhecimento da infância como construção social, componente da cultura/ sociedade, forma estrutural que não desaparece, e as crianças, atores, produto e produtoras dos processos sociais; e na análise do contexto político que envolve as práticas de institucionalização das crianças, tendo como inspiração os referenciais analíticos propostos por Ball e Mainardes (2001, 2006, 2011). O campo empírico foi construído a partir do banco de dados referente à observação em vinte e uma instituições de educação infantil da cidade do Rio de Janeiro no período de 2005 a 2008. O exame do material compreendeu um duplo movimento. O primeiro foi a análise panorâmica dos dados que evidenciou que independentemente do formato de institucionalização das crianças (se frequentam creches, pré-escolas ou turmas de pré-escola em escolas de ensino fundamental) a experiência de infância se dá no encontro entre os processos individuais e coletivos resultantes das relações das crianças com seus pares, com adultos, com os objetos, com a cultura/história, com a sociedade e com a natureza. Pode ser percebida através da observação das suas formas de apropriações, reproduções e reinvenções do mundo, assim como de seus modos próprios de interpretá-lo e de se relacionarem entre si, através da criação de regras, normas e expectativas que conduzem não só as ações pessoais, como o contexto em que estão inseridas, através da circulação que se dá na cultura de pares. O segundo movimento, teve nova orientação, na qual se buscou outra perspectiva de leitura e apropriação dos dados. Nela, o objetivo foi o enquadramento das situações que envolveram crianças e adultos em uma modalidade de atendimento educacional específica, para tal o contexto selecionado foi o das Pré-escolas exclusivas. Como conclusão destaca-se que a experiência de infância das crianças das pré-escolas observadas se materializa (1) na construção da identidade de ser criança, que ocorre em diálogo com o que concebem como ser adulto. (2) na aprendizagem do ofício do aluno (3) e no desafio do pertencimento a um grupo, pertencimento provocado pela inclusão das crianças um espaço público, compartilhado, onde desenvolverão suas culturas de pares. / [en] Childhood and schooling are the focus of this thesis that lies in the field of education, with dialogue with philosophy, sociology and politics. In order to investigate the experience of childhood in institutions, relies, in the studies of philosophy, especially in the work of Walter Benjamin and his concept of childhood and experience; in the sociology of childhood, marked by recognition of children as social construction, component of culture/society, structural form that does not disappear, and children, actors, and producers of social processes; and in the analysis of the political context surrounding the practices of institutionalization of children, taking as inspiration the analytical benchmarks proposed by Ball and Mainardes (2001, 2006, 2011). The empirical field was built from the database concerning observation in twenty and one early childhood institutions of the city of Rio de Janeiro during the period from 2005 to 2008. The examination of the material comprised a double movement. The first was the panoramic analysis of the data showed that regardless of the format of institutionalization of children (if attending daycare centers, preschools or preschool classes in elementary schools) childhood experience takes place in the encounter between the individual and collective processes resulting from the children s relationships with their peers, with adults, with objects, with the culture/history, with society and with nature. Can be perceived through the observation of their appropriations forms, reproductions and reinvention of the world, as well as their own modes of interpreting it and relate to each other, through the creation of rules, norms and expectations that lead not only to personal actions, as the context in which they are inserted, by means of the circulation that occurs in pairs. The second movement , had new approach, in which it sought another perspective of reading and ownership of the data. In it, the goal was the framing of situations involving children and adults in a specific educational service mode, the selected context was the exclusive preschools. As a conclusion is that the childhood experience of children of preschools observed materializes (1) in the construction of the identity of being a child, that takes place in dialogue with what they regard as being an adult. (2) in learning the craft of the student (3) and in the challenge of belonging to a group, the inclusion of belonging children a public, shared space, where will their cultures of pairs. / [fr] L enfance et et la scolarisation de l enfant sont l objet de cette thèse, qui se pose dans le domaine de l éducation en dialogue avec la philosophie, la sociologie et la politique. L objectif central a été de comprendre l experience de l enfance au sein des établissements d enseignement; est basée sur la contribution teórique des études de la philosophie, en particulier le travail de Walter Benjamin et son concept de l enfance et de l expérience; de la sociologie de l enfance, champ marqué par la reconnaissance de l enfance comme une construction sociale, un élément de la culture / société, catégorie qui ne disparaît pas, et les enfants, acteurs, producteurs et le produit de processus sociaux ; et de l analyse du contexte politique qui entoure la pratique de l institutionnalisation des enfants en prenant comme source d inspiration les points de référence proposées par Ball et Mainardes (2001, 2006, 2011). Le terrain a été construit à partir de la base de données concernant l observation dans vingt et un établissements scolaires de la ville de Rio de Janeiro de 2005 à 2008. L analyse des données a suivi un double mouvement. Le premier a été la méta-analyse des données. Les données ont révélé que quel que soit le format de l institutionnalisation des enfants (s ils fréquentent des crèches, les maternelles ou des classes maternelles dans les écoles primaires) l expérience de l enfance se produit dans la rencontre entre les processus individuels et collectifs résultant des relations de l enfant avec ses pairs, avec les adultes, avec des objets, avec la culture / histoire, la société et la nature. Peut être perçu par l observation de leurs formes d appropriation, des reproductions et des réinventions du monde, ainsi que leurs propres façons de l interpréter et de rapporter les uns aux autres par la création de règles, de normes et d attentes qui conduisent non seulement actions personnelles, mais aussi le contexte dans lequel ils opèrent, par le mouvement qui se produit dans la culture des pairs. Le deuxième mouvement, dans laquelle il cherchait une autre perspective de la lecture des données, a été pour but de comprendre les situations vécues par les enfants dans une réalité spécifique, le contexte des écoles maternelles. En conclusion, il est souligné que l expérience de l enfance des enfants de la maternelle observée se concrétise (1) dans la construction de l identité dêtre un enfant, ce qui se produit dans le dialogue à ce qu ils conçoivent comme un adulte; (2) dans l apprentissage du métier d élève; (3) dans le défi de l appartenance à un groupe, appartenant causée par la prise des enfants dans un espace public, partagé où elles vont développer leurs cultures de pairs.

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À la fin du XXe siècle, l'école maternelle française est devenue l'école du langage pour toute une tranche d'âge, la petite enfance scolaire, afin de réduire les inégalités scolaires devant l'école. Or le langage, tout comme l'enfance, ne sont pas uniques et uniformes car ils sont socialement variables. La thèse interroge le primat du langage à l'école maternelle d'un double point de vue. Comment des enfances socialement différenciées sont-elles saisies par la norme du langage scolaire, un langage inscrit dans la culture écrite ? Quels sont les langages de l'enfance et quels rap-ports entretiennent-ils ? En prenant pour objet les primes socialisations langagières, la thèse étudie la socialisation plurielle et la différenciation sociale de la petite enfance scolarisée. L'analyse socio-historique montre que le primat du langage à l'école maternelle vient d'une attention sociale au jeune enfant. Après s'être portée sur son corps fragile, elle a investi ses productions symboliques, révélées par une « science de l'enfant » ethnocentrique. Progressivement, le jeune enfant devient un « objet culturel ». Au XIXe siècle, ce processus se situe dans les fractions instruites et dominantes de la bourgeoisie et de l'aristocratie, et les femmes de ces milieux investissent la petite enfance. Une première pédagogie du langage s'invente, au moins idéalement, dans l'école maternelle de la IIIe République qui voulait former un citoyen raisonnable. Mais c'est dans la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle que le langage devient une question scolaire, quand le problème social de l'« échec scolaire » surgit avec la massification. Un champ d'intervention professionnelle se constitue et impose des contenus et des pratiques légitimes. Entrepreneur de la littératie précoce, il véhicule les normes pédagogiques et les attentes de la bourgeoisie cultivée autour d'un « client idéal » : une définition élitiste du jeune enfant, qui présuppose son autonomie politique et cognitive. L'enquête ethnographique décrit des primes socialisations plurielles à la rencontre de plusieurs instances et leurs produits socialement différenciés : l'acculturation scolaire, la socialisation entre pairs, les socialisations familiales, la culture matérielle et symbolique de l'enfance (i. e. culture lu-dique et fictionnelle, culture graphique, alphabétique et lectorale, « traditions scolaires », culture légitime). Elle dévoile comment l'inégale distribution de ces produits langagiers structure des rapports sociaux (de classe et de genre) entre enfants au croisement de l'acculturation scolaire et d'un langage entre pairs. Elle reproduit la structure sociale. L'enquête conclut à une reconfigura-tion des fonctions différentielles de l'école maternelle : autour d'un curriculum réel, duquel une partie des milieux populaires est proche, et d'un curriculum caché, secondarisé, présupposant la réflexivité. Celui-ci est l'apanage des milieux dotés en ressources scolaires et l'objet légitime du champ d'intervention professionnelle de la littératie précoce. Finalement, la thèse montre que la priorité accordée au langage à l'école maternelle au nom de la réduction des inégalités scolaires perpétue la domination scolaire. Elle se réalise par la domination pédagogique que les entrepre-neurs et les entrepreneuses de normes exercent sur les agents des primes socialisations. / At the end of the 20th century, the French nursery school has become the school of language for a whole age group, early childhood, in order to reduce school inequalities. However, both language and childhood are not unique and uniform because both of them are socially variable. This thesis questions the primacy of language in the nursery school from a double point of view: how do norms of school language, i.e. early literacy, affect children from socially different backgrounds? What are childhood’s languages and how are they connected? By taking language socialization as a research object, this thesis studies the plural socialization and social differentiation in schooled early childhood. The sociohistorical analysis shows that the primacy of language in nursery school came from social attention towards the young child. After having studied his fragile body, it invested his symbolic productions, revealed by an ethnocentric “science of the child”. Gradual-ly, the young child becomes a “cultural object”. Over the 19th century, this process took place in the educated and dominant parts of the upper class and the aristocracy. Women from these social groups took a close interest in early childhood. A first pedagogy of language was invented, at least ideally, in the Third Republic’s nursery school which aim was to bring up a reasonable citi-zen. But over the second half of the 20th century, language became a school issue, when the social problem of “school failure” appeared with mass schooling. A professional intervention field of early literacy was formed and imposed contents and norms for legitimate practices. Those early literacy entrepreneurs convey the educational standards and expectations of the cultivated middle class towards an “ideal customer”: by the elitist definition of a young child as someone with pre-supposed political and cognitive autonomy. The ethnographic inquiry describes plural socializa-tion involving several instances together and their socially differentiated products: school accul-turation, socialization among peers, family socializations, children material and symbolic culture (i.e. playful, fictional, graphic, alphabetical and reading culture, “school traditions”, legitimate culture). It reveals how the unequal distribution of these language products structures social rela-tions (both class & gender) between children at nursery school, at the crossroads between school acculturation and peer language. It reproduces social structure. The study concludes that the dif-ferential functions of nursery school are structured around both a real curriculum, (which part of the working class is comfortable with), and a hidden reflexive curriculum, (i. e. as a principal of extended literacy). This latter one belongs to social groups with education resources (i. e. middle class) and is the legitimate object of the professional intervention field in early literacy. Finally, the thesis shows that language established as a priority in order to reduce school inequalities actually perpetuates school domination. It happens through the pedagogical domination imposed by the norms entrepreneurs on the early language socialization’s agents.

The main intention with this study has been to analyze which social identities and versions of the world young people construct within Swedish gangster rap and how to see this from a child cultural perspective. In addition, my goal was to analyze what functions the rappers and their songs assume in relation to their young audience. The analysis shows that the positions young rappers occupy in the songs are strongly linked to their need to gain status within their group. In addition, it becomes a peer culture where they create and share their identities and versions of the world. It is also through music that they question the authority of adults. It can also be seen that their poor childhood means that crime becomes, apart from rap, the only way they perceive to rise economically and socially. But the price for these achievements is high.

A short (11 page) plain language summary is available under the filename "Research Summary_Peer Support Institutionalization - Troubling Everyday Work.pdf" / This study explores how the everyday work of peer supporters working within institutionalized settings are shaped by institutional forces (“ruling relations”), through a series of four (peer support) focus groups and interviews with five peer support workers in Ontario. I explore peer supporters’ approaches to writing, reading, and verbally sharing information about their peers (“documentation work”), and reveal how their experiences and “felt troubles” relating to documentation are shaped by ideas of (clinical) confidentiality constructed in the Personal Health Information Protection Act (2004). I also explore how both lived experience and peer support are devalued through the ways organizations and clinicians determine and describe the value of healthcare roles (“de/valuing work”), and reveal how peer supporters’ experiences of being (de)valued are shaped by discourses of “professional/ism” which equate being a professional to having a post-secondary education and working through clinical frameworks. I describe the work that peer supporters, clinicians, and organizations (can) engage in to ground peer support workers within peer values and approaches (“values work”) through accessing peer community and fostering environments of peer culture. I draw on these suggestions and the findings of the study to provide recommendations for peer support workers, organizations and clinical workers, the peer support sector as a whole, and research/ers. / Thesis / Master of Social Work (MSW)

Cette thèse reconstruit la participation des jeunes et les articulations culturelles des jeunes dans les écoles ouest-allemandes à travers une collection de plus de 7 500 journaux scolaires archivés à la Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung (BBF) de Berlin. Afin d'aider à façonner la communauté scolaire et d'apprendre à agir de manière démocratique, les journaux scolaires ont été introduits après 1945 par les Alliés en collaboration avec le conseil des élèves, en particulier dans les écoles secondaires. Ce faisant, certaines préformes réussies du passé ont été poursuivies. Pour la première fois, cet ouvrage retrace l'évolution des journaux scolaires dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, puis se concentre sur les développements des années 1950 et 1960. A partir du milieu des années 1950, les rédacteurs en chef des journaux de l'école ont revendiqué avec succès leur indépendance vis-à-vis du conseil des élèves, dont les possibilités de codécision ont été désillusionnées à un stade précoce. Contrairement au conseil des élèves, les journaux scolaires ont témoigné de possibilités de co-design et d'articulation à établir nettement moins problématiques et plus fructueuses et ont ainsi contribué au développement de cultures scolaires plus fortement influencées par la libéralisation et la participation. Il est présenté dans le présent document pour les thèmes de formation au cours de la période couverte : en vue (1) de la discussion sur la technologie et les développements scientifiques et techniques pendant la Guerre froide, (2) de l'occupation avec les Etats-Unis et son influence culturelle, et (3) des confrontations avec les développements culturels des jeunes. L'ouverture croissante de l'école aux expressions culturelles des jeunes est examinée tant au niveau de la thématisation que sur le plan matériel sous la forme d'une analyse des artefacts. A cet effet, la communication symbolique sur les pages de titre des journaux scolaires sera analysée. Les efforts productifs présentés pour la liberté d'opinion dans les écoles illustrent également l'importance des journaux étudiants pour la relation enseignant-élève et le développement de structures participatives dans les écoles. Les travaux confirment la pertinence des journaux scolaires pour la reconstruction des cultures des jeunes ou des cultures des pairs dans les écoles et en tant que source productive pour les jeunes et la recherche scolaire. Les journaux scolaires sont également un phénomène international et transnational. Pour des recherches plus approfondies, ce document fournit un premier rapport de recherche complet pour l'Europe occidentale ainsi qu'une présentation pour la RDA et les Etats-Unis. / Die Arbeit rekonstruiert jugendliche Mitgestaltung und jugendkulturelle Artikulationen in westdeutschen Schulen entlang eines umfassenden Bestandes an Schülerzeitungen. Zur Mitgestaltung der Schulgemeinschaft und zum Erlernen demokratischer Handlungsweisen wurden Schülerzeitungen von den Alliierten zusammen mit der Schülermitverantwortung (SMV) insbesondere an Gymnasien eingeführt. Erstmals wird hier auch die Entwicklung der Schülerzeitungen in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts nachgezeichnet. Schülerzeitungen zeugten gegenüber der Schülermitverantwortung (SMV) von deutlich unproblematischer und erfolgreicher zu etablierenden Mitgestaltungs- und Artikulationsmöglichkeiten und trugen zur Entwicklung von stärker durch Liberalisierung und Partizipation geprägte Schulkulturen bei. Dies wird für prägende Themen in der behandelten Zeit dargestellt: mit Blick auf (1) die Diskussion von Technik und naturwissenschaftlich-technischen Entwicklungen während des Kalten Krieges, (2) auf die Beschäftigung mit den USA und ihrem kulturellen Einfluss sowie (3) auf die Auseinandersetzungen mit jugendkulturellen Entwicklungen. Die zunehmende Öffnung der Schule für jugendkulturelle Ausdrucksweisen wird sowohl thematisch als auch auf materieller Ebene untersucht. Dazu wird u. a. die symbolische Kommunikation auf Titelblättern von Schülerzeitungen analysiert. Die dargestellten produktiven Bemühungen um Meinungsfreiheit in der Schule verdeutlichen auch die Bedeutung von Schülerzeitungen für das Lehrer-Schüler-Verhältnis. Die Arbeit bekräftigt die Relevanz von Schülerzeitungen für die Rekonstruktion von Jugendkulturen bzw. peer cultures im schulischen Raum sowie als ertragreiche Quelle für die Jugend- und Schulforschung. Schülerzeitungen sind darüber hinaus ein internationales und auch transnationales Phänomen. Für weitere Forschungen wird daher zudem ein erster umfassender Forschungsbericht zu Schülerzeitungen in Westeuropa, in der DDR und in den USA gegeben. / This doctoral thesis reconstructs youth participation and youth-cultural articulations at West German secondary schools. After 1945, the Allies introduced student newspapers along with student councils in order to foster the acquisition of democratic behaviors and codetermination of the school community. This project first offers a thorough documentation of the development of student newspapers in the first half of the 20th century, and then focuses on their development in the 1950s and 1960s. By the mid-1950s, the editors of the student newspapers had claimed independence vis-a-vis student councils. Student newspapers, meanwhile, bespoke far less problematic, and more successful, potentials for participation and youth-cultural articulation. They thereby contributed to school cultures more strongly influenced by liberalization and participation. The following defining themes from the era are presented in these articles: (1) the discussion of technology and natural science/technical developments during the cold war, (2) engagement with the USA and its cultural influence, and (3) involvement with youth-cultural developments. The increasing opening of schools for youth-cultural forms of expression is examined on both thematic and material levels. In addition, newspaper elements such as the symbolic communication in title pages will be analyzed. The productive efforts toward freedom of opinion in schools show the importance of school newspapers in terms of the teacher-student relationship and the development of participatory structures in schools. This project underlines the relevance of school newspapers for the reconstruction of youth cultures and peer cultures in schools in addition to being sources for youth research and school research. Moreover, school newspapers are an international and transnational phenomenon. Areas for further research are indicated in a literature review for Western Europe a consideration of the GDR and the USA.