Children's Experiences in School

Abstract

Backed by secondary researches, the paper aims to look into the children's inner experiences at school. There seems to be a dearth of researches where children's voices are being heard and where their perceptions are taken into consideration. This is an attempt to bring together some of the available works to explore children's experiences in school. However, when it comes to children, the terms ‘education' and ‘schooling' comes quite readily. It seems important to also study these two notions so as to discern significant differences between the two. The two terms apparently have wide connotations and are defined differently by Indian and Western philosophers and thinkers. Gradually moving towards the children's experiences in school, emotions surfaced out as an important factor.