%0 Journal Article
%T Can performing happy childhood be an occupational skill required of students?
%A Maija Lanas
%J Childhood
%@ 1461-7013
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0907568218823882
%X School takes part in producing childhood through its requirements for students. Becoming a student takes place in the intersections of various power-related discourses. This article explores how the idea of a proper student becomes discursively produced. It is based on how one Finnish girlĄ¯s perception of herself as a proper student changed as her life circumstances changed. The article concludes by suggesting that a significant occupational skill for a student may be the skill of performing happy childhood
%K Discourse
%K professional student
%K school
%K student behaviour
%K subjectification
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0907568218823882