A Box of Childhood: Small Stories at the Roots of a Career

Autor/in	Nutbrown, Cathy
Titel	A Box of Childhood: Small Stories at the Roots of a Career
Quelle	In: International Journal of Early Years Education, 19 (2011) 3-4, S.233-248 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0966-9760
DOI	10.1080/09669760.2011.629491
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Education; Inquiry; Qualitative Research; Young Children; Reflection; Research Design; Ethnography; Autobiographies; Educational Philosophy; Selection; Decision Making; Time Perspective; Cultural Context; Social Sciences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Qualitative Forschung; Frühe Kindheit; Forschungsdesign; Ethnografie; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Auslese; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Zeitbezug; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Abstract	This paper emerges from a view that the growing body of self-reflective qualitative research designs elsewhere in education is insufficiently represented in early childhood enquiry. Research of this sort has a rich capacity to inform critical understanding with experiential data that reveal the remarkable within the quotidian; more specifically, it has the potential to give some access to the "small secret stuff" of childhood that--though often observed in literary work--is frequently obscured in social science report. Our own experiences--not least of the world of children from which we are all graduates--are no less overshadowed in most of our critical accounts. In this paper the exploration of my own childhood provides a ground for an autoethnographic enquiry realised through nine short stories. The paper first describes the visual/sensory ethnographic process, which gave life to the accounts before presenting the stories themselves. It then argues the usefulness of reflexivity and autoethnography in early childhood education research, and a conclusion urges further reflective enquiry from the early childhood education community. (Contains 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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