%0 Journal Article
%T Children¡¯s reconstruction of psychological knowledge: An ethnographic study of life skills education programmes in India
%A R Maithreyi
%J Childhood
%@ 1461-7013
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0907568218798014
%X Despite calls for examining children¡¯s lives relationally, dominant accounts view childhood as biologically, culturally or economically determined. Based on ethnographic observations of children¡¯s life skills education programmes in Bangalore, this article shows how poor and marginalised children reposition themselves as ¡®better educated¡¯ and successful compared to peers, while a global network of professionals position them as ¡®at-risk¡¯, seeking to intervene in their lives. This article draws attention to how children can be seen as ¡®strategically opportunising actors¡¯, who creatively seek to make meaning of their lives despite structural and discursive constraints placed upon them
%K At-risk
%K cultural knowledge
%K life skills
%K psycho-education
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0907568218798014