'A day in the life': exploring eating events involving two-year-old girls and their families in diverse communities.

Gillen, Julia and Hancock, Roger (2006) 'A day in the life': exploring eating events involving two-year-old girls and their families in diverse communities. Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 31 (4). pp. 23-29. ISSN 0312-5033

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Abstract

This article reports on a specific aspect of a larger study of ‘a day in the life’ of five two-and-a-half-year-old girls in families in Canada, Italy, Peru, Thailand and the UK. The larger study involved filming each of the five children in their family contexts for one whole day and studying a number of emerging themes related to the child’s development. The focus is on mealtimes and eating. Culture is regarded as a dynamic dimension of the child’s socialisation through which family practices around eating (often neglected as a research focus) are explored. Using the concept of an ‘eating event’, by analogy with a ‘literacy event’, close examination of video sequences reveal the extent to which children and carers, with differing desires and intentions, negotiate and collaborate to achieve mutually satisfactory ends.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Australian Journal of Early Childhood
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? eating eventfamily practiceseco-cultural frameworkplayvideo analysisdevelopmental and educational psychologyeducationp philology. linguistics ??
ID Code:
1113
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Deposited On:
01 Feb 2008 11:53
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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