This chapter investigates a methodology of an ecological investigation, now in progress, of aspects of culture in the interactional construction of early childhood in diverse communities: Peru, Italy, Canada, Thailand, and the UK. The foci of attention are five girls aged two and a half years, together with the caregivers they interact with at home and the values expressed by those caregivers. The approach taken is to film a day in the life of each child and supplement this data with field notes, sketches, and interviews in which core values in the child’s family existence are explored. A crucial element of the project is the full participation by local investigators both in the selection of suitable families, and in the interpretation for distal investigators of the local meaning of the home routines as they are enacted in the homes. Several months after the initial filming, there is an iterative stage of data collection, including a videoed family discussion of a thirty minute compilation tape of five-minute clips from the day. The interplay between members of the research team and participants, the collaborations between the local researchers and other members of the international research team, all are important critical components of this effort to develop new cultural understandings
Using video technology / Hancock, Roger; Gillen, Julia; Pinto, Giuliana. - STAMPA. - (2010), pp. 35-58. [10.1057/9780230251373_2]
Using video technology
PINTO, GIULIANA
2010
Abstract
This chapter investigates a methodology of an ecological investigation, now in progress, of aspects of culture in the interactional construction of early childhood in diverse communities: Peru, Italy, Canada, Thailand, and the UK. The foci of attention are five girls aged two and a half years, together with the caregivers they interact with at home and the values expressed by those caregivers. The approach taken is to film a day in the life of each child and supplement this data with field notes, sketches, and interviews in which core values in the child’s family existence are explored. A crucial element of the project is the full participation by local investigators both in the selection of suitable families, and in the interpretation for distal investigators of the local meaning of the home routines as they are enacted in the homes. Several months after the initial filming, there is an iterative stage of data collection, including a videoed family discussion of a thirty minute compilation tape of five-minute clips from the day. The interplay between members of the research team and participants, the collaborations between the local researchers and other members of the international research team, all are important critical components of this effort to develop new cultural understandingsI documenti in FLORE sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.