TY - CHAP A1 - Hurrelmann, Klaus A1 - Pupeter, Monika T1 - School: An Increasingly Important Field of Experience T2 - Well-being, Poverty and Justice from a Child’s Perspective N2 - School plays a major role in the daily lives of 6- to 11-year-olds—and not just in terms of the time spent there and the structuring of the day through school attendance. It also imposes completely new social and intellectual demands on children, because they now have a range of different things to learn, and they need to acquire not only knowledge but also basic competencies such as reading, writing, and arithmetic. School admission also marks the beginning of a new phase of life in a new community in which children first have to find and claim their place. This is because school is a social location in which children can meet their friends and forge new friendships. Hence, alongside confronting them with the actual contents of learning, it also places greater demands on children’s abilities to socialize and adapt to their surroundings while simultaneously coming to terms with new spatial conditions. Put briefly, school has many facets for children, and for each individual child, school admission is accompanied not only by opportunities, scopes for making new discoveries, and new chances but also by constraints, disappointments, and trials to be mastered. School becomes an increasingly important life space for childhood experience. Y1 - 2018 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2472 SN - 978-3-319-57574-2 SP - 83 EP - 105 PB - Springer International Publishing CY - Cham ER -