Perspektiven auf Schul- und Lebenswelten in Schüler/innen-Narrationen während der Corona-Krise im Frühjahr 2020

The aim of the international study “Futures Literacy—Children’s Crisis Narrations as Spaces of Utopias of Solidarity” is to gain insights into their (living) world and perspectives on home-schooling in times of the Corona Crisis by means of crisis narratives by schoolchildren. The data collection (n = 237) is based on a special writing assignment to the pupils, in which they are asked to describe how they tell their grandchildren about the time of the Corona crisis in the fictional future in the role of the grandparents—60 years later. The task requires an anticipatory effort from the present point of view, which stimulates them to reflect on their current situation from a certain “distance” (stimulating them to adopt a perspective and to construct a “vision”). The perspective of children is explicitly placed in the center of interest in order to draw conclusions about the issues that concern this age group in times of crisis. The aim is to find out how pupils from different European countries (Switzerland, Austria and Greece) deal with the Corona crisis and its consequences for their life-world, how they experience it and how they process it cognitively/emotionally. Theoretically, the study ties in with the concept of futures literacy. The texts produced by the students will be evaluated by means of a systematic combination of quantitative and qualitative content analysis (using Latent Class Analysis). Typical narrative and argumentative text patterns (narrative characteristics) will be identified.