Fritidshem som försäkringsinstitution

Vårdnadshavares perspektiv på verksamheten

Abstract

School-age educare as an insurance institution: The caregiver’s perspective on the organisation. How do caregivers speak about school-age educare in Sweden today? While their voices are seldom given space in either the media or research, this study reveals knowledge of caregivers regarding the purpose and societal function of school-age educare. The analysis is based on empirical material in the form of responses to a qualitative survey, starting from the research question: How do caregivers construct and position school-age educare discursively? The theoretical inspiration for the study is Foucault, alongside theories on risk management and insurance. School-age educare is positioned as a threefold institution that i) ensures that children’s leisure time is organised in a specific way, ii) prevents certain given problems and iii) facilitates a certain kind of meaningfulness. The caregivers’ staging of the organisation is of a risk-managing insurance institution that revolves around the safe and secure location, the constructive activity and the fun to be had.