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Thomson, Rachel, Hadfield, Lucy, Kehily, Mary Jane and Sharpe, Sue (2012) Acting up and acting out: encountering children in a longitudinal study of mothering. Qualitative Research, 12 (2). pp. 186-201. ISSN 1468-7941
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Despite a proliferation of research exploring children’s lives and relationships over the past two decades, there is a notable absence of research which explores family relationships from the perspective of very young children (age 0–3). This article reports on data emerging from a study of new mothering with a particular focus on very young children’s active engagement with wider family narratives. The study employs a qualitative longitudinal design, and women have been followed from pregnancy into motherhood. Most recently we have attempted to document a ‘day in the life’ of the mothers using participant observation techniques. This approach has enabled us to capture the emergence of the child (around 2 years old). This article focuses on examples of interaction between researcher, mother and child relating to food, exploring how researcher subjectivity can be interrogated as a source of evidence regarding the place of the child within the research and family dynamic including examples of ‘acting up’ and ‘acting out’ on the part of all participants.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | children, day in a life, food, mobile methods, mothers, participant observation, psycho-social, qualitative longitudinal, researcher subjectivity, work shadowing |
| Schools and Departments: | School of Education and Social Work > Social Work and Social Care |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HQ The Family. Marriage. Women > HQ0503 The Family. Marriage. Home > HQ0755 Parents. Parenthood Including parent and child, husbands, fathers, wives, mothers H Social Sciences > HQ The Family. Marriage. Women > HQ0503 The Family. Marriage. Home > HQ0767.8 Children. Child development Including child rearing, child life, play, socialisation, children's rights |
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| Depositing User: | Cecilia Kimani |
| Date Deposited: | 09 May 2012 09:20 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2018 18:00 |
| URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38710 |