Children as Actors—Muchow’s Life Space Study and Its Implications for “New” Childhood Studies

Hungerland, Beatrice

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“…Doing so, as Behnken and Honig (2012, p. 13) observe, maintains the opportunity "for perceiving children as children, and it also generates practical distinctions that are rendered objective within the concept of knowledge termed 'child'". But beyond this, we can also focus on those differences, as Beatrice Hungerland (2015) concludes in her contribution on "Children as actors -Muchow's life space study and its implications for 'new' childhood studies": Different from many researchers, Muchow did not match the children in her study with prevalent ideas of what defined good and proper childhood. The children she met in the streets were working-class children who lived under tough social conditions.…”

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“…There is also a certain tension in research related to children's rights: between the assumption of a fundamental actor status, a special legal position and the practices of resource provision by adults. Often the reality of action research projects with children, in which they are supposed to be given space to exercise their agency, shows that the decisions about the initiative and the conditions for participation depend on what adults are prepared to allow (Hungerland, 2015).…”

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“…Here children were integrated into the research by means of quantitative, standardised and mostly representative methods, but also increasingly by qualitative methods (Fattore et al, 2012). In the course of these changes, children also became research subjects in a narrower sense in other branches of research (Hungerland, 2015; for example in developmental psychology, see Mey, 2005, and in this volume). summed up this general aspiration with this concise phrase: "giving voice to children's voices".…”

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“…Child-based, subject-oriented research claims to give children a chance to express themselves in their own language and form . The idea is that this will not only generate insights into the effects of social phenomena on children as a group, but will also express appreciation and recognition for children's utterances and needs (Hungerland, 2015).…”

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Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood

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By regarding children as actors and conducting empirical research on children's agency, Childhood Studies have gained significant influence on a wide range of different academic disciplines. This has made agency one of the key concepts of Childhood Studies, with articles on the subject featured in handbooks and encyclopaedias.Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood is the first collection devoted to the central concept of agency in Childhood Studies. With contributions from experts in the field, the chapters cover theoretical, practical, historical, transnational and institutional dimensions of agency, rekindling discussion and introducing fundamental and contemporary sociological perspectives to the field of research. Particular attention is paid to connecting agency in the social sciences with Childhood Studies, considering both the theoretical foundations and the practice of research into agency. Empirical case studies are also explored, which focus upon child protection, schools and childcare at a variety of institutions worldwide.This book is an essential reference for students and scholars of Childhood Studies, and is also relevant to Sociology, Social Work, Education, Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) and Geography.

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“…Within the remaining contributions different aspects of the life space study are taken up and further developed. Hungerland (2015), for example, discusses Muchow’s view on children as actors who appropriate their world in relation to the agency concept. This contribution clearly demonstrates the need to adjust classic studies to current research endeavors, rather than simply reproducing new data with the exact same research design.…”

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Personal life space: Learning from Martha Muchow’s classic study

Joerchel

2015

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In her study on the life space of the urban child, Martha Muchow extensively analyzed the personal life space of children growing up in Hamburg between two World Wars. Resorting to theoretical person<>environment conceptions as proposed by mentors and colleagues such as William Stern, Jakob von Uexkuell, and Heinz Werner, Muchow's study represents a fine example of empirically investigating the emergence of the world not only as it is experienced by the child (subjectively) or in a purely physical and concrete relational manner (objectively), but also as the child lives his world (from a developmental and cultural psychological perspective). The aim of this paper is to briefly review Mey and Günther's translation of Muchow's original study and to expand on Muchow's threefold differentiation of the personal life world. With the example of Gugging-a place for Art Brut-Muchow's person<>environment conception is discussed in relation to the developmental aspect of time and socio-cultural processes.

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Rassismus und Kindheit

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In diesem Artikel werden Kinder als aktive Akteur*innen an der Herstellung von Rassismus dargestellt und als von Rassismus Betroffene. Dazu werden überblicksartig Erkenntnisse aus der Forschung skizziert und es wird auf Forschungsdesiderate hingewiesen. Es wird argumentiert, dass ein interdisziplinärer Theoriedialog vonnöten ist, um die Forschungslücken auf das Erleben von Kindheit und Rassismus zu schließen. Auf Basis dieser Skizzierungen werden handlungsleitende Empfehlungen für die frühkindliche Bildungsarbeit formuliert, um Rassismus in Bildungsinstitutionen zu minimieren.

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Children as Actors—Muchow’s Life Space Study and Its Implications for “New” Childhood Studies

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