Childrens Views of Documentation in the Relations between Home and School

The aim of the article is to shed light on children’s views of the different forms of documentation that are related to and used in the interaction between home and school. The study draws on qualitative interviews with 52 pupils aged 12-13 years in Year 6 in Sweden. The analyses reveal how documentation and documents are created and understood from the pupils’ perspectives. The pupils point to how documentation form an important part of the communication between home and school and how documents are produced, communicated and consumed by the different actors and their own role.