The Everyday Lives of Young Children

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Tudge
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday

scholarly journals Using mobile phone diaries to explore children’s everyday lives

Childhood ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydia Plowman ◽  
Olivia Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Sufficient Detail ◽  
The Everyday

This article describes a novel approach to experience sampling as a response to the challenges of researching the everyday lives of young children at home. Parents from 11 families used mobile phones to send the research team combined picture and text messages to provide ‘experience snapshots’ of their child’s activities six times on each of three separate days. The article describes how the method aligns with an ecocultural approach, illustrates the variation in children’s experiences and provides sufficient detail for researchers to adapt the method for the purposes of collecting data in other contexts. The article summarizes the benefits and shortcomings from the perspectives of families and researchers.

scholarly journals Producing Neoliberal Parenting Subjectivities: ANT-Inspired Readings from an Informal Early Learning Program

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-78
Author(s):  
Rosamund Stooke
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
School Readiness ◽  
Observational Data ◽  
Early Learning ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Actor Networks

This paper employs the Foucauldian notion of governmentality and actor-network theory’s notion of translation to propose that and show how a neoliberal imaginary permeates the everyday lives of Ontario families with young children. The paper traces the unfolding of school readiness as a dispersed policy network in Canada since the 1990s. Drawing on observational data collected in one Ontario-based, parent-child program, it then presents and discusses a series of vignettes that show how ostensibly supportive actions between practitioners and parents can also enrol parents in actor-networks oriented toward the realisation of neoliberal goals. The analysis corroborates Iannacci’s observation that neoliberal assemblages produce both possibilities and limitations for children, their parents and the educators who work with them.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Short Note ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Early Settlement ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Initial Research

The chapters in this collection explore the everyday lives, experiences, practices and attitudes of Muslims in Scotland. In order to set the context for these chapters, in this introduction I explore the early settlement of Muslims in Scotland and discuss some of the initial research projects that charted the settlement of Asians and Pakistanis in Scotland’s main cities. I then discuss the current situation for Muslims in Scotland through data from the 2011 Scottish Census. Following a short note about the significance of the Scottish context, in the final section, the main themes and issues that have been explored in research about Muslims in Scotland.

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