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...work was the key aim of the space, as the librarians explained and as was evident from the presence of reading scheme books, educational posters about the benefits of reading or workbooks. Mothers dutifully seemed to bring their children to that library, too, but – maybe in a point of difference from the Sydney tiger mothers I described above – had little interest in...

...works: for instance, writing stories based in their world, or creating short fan films. Contrary to a certain perception of teenagers which sees them as naive and straightforwardly (badly) influenced by the media they watch, fandom is an illustration of how young people negotiate media in critical and complicated ways. This can involve exploration of themes or...

...work was completed. Some felt a lack of motivation without the presence of an educator, and in terms of those who were at school it was generally established that they missed learning with their friends. Interestingly, whilst many children and young people kept in contact with the same friendship groups, a minority did not and their friendship circles became smaller, but...