Learning to be Friends : Methodological Lessons from Participant Observation Among English Schoolchildren  

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James, Allison

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research vol. 03 no. 03 (Aug. 1996), page 313-330.
Topik: Participation; Schoolchildren; Methods; Friendship
Fulltext: Childhood-1996-JAMES-313-330 (04Y088).pdf (1.96MB)

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: C43 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Although the socially constructed character of childhood is now well established, the methodological challenges this raises remain so far relatively unremarked. Drawing on a recent period of fieldwork, carried out among English schoolchildren aged between 4 and 9 years old, this article explores the contribution of participant observation as a research method to the study of childhood. Two key aspects are discussed. Taking children's friendships as its focus, the article argues, first, that participant observation permits a more comprehensive understanding of the process of friendship making than traditional sociometric techniques. Second, it shows that, for the researcher, the remembered experiences of participation and observation allow for a continued reflexive critique to be made of the data, a learning process which patterns the path through which children's friendships are themselves constructed.

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