Children's and Families' Holiday Experience

Carr, Neil

doi:10.4324/9780203832615

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“…During the summer, the family -Joanne, Edward and teenage daughters Jenny and Amygo to the caravan once a fortnight and this summer routine shapes their (annual) consumption patterns. Moreover, talking about the summer engaged other family members in the research, with children (particularly in the Grey, Robinson and Smith families) talking eagerly about their plans for the summer (see Barker et al 2009;Carr 2011). Again here we see how holidays combine the aspirational with the realisable (Smart 2007), they are anticipated and enjoyed.…”

Section: Anticipation -Saving and Earning A Holidaymentioning

confidence: 86%

“…The fact that tourism and holidays are usually embarked upon in the companionship of family or friends is often overlooked in the context of demarcating the familiar and the exotic in tourist studies (Sheller 2003;Carr 2011;Obrador 2012). As a number of commentators have observed, the focus of tourism literature has very much been geared towards individual experiences:…”

Section: Holiday and Familymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The intimacy of family holidays is contradictory in a number of ways; going away is associated with privacy and intimacy, shielded from the monotonous visibility of the everyday, although holidays are also practices of display and sharing intimate relations (Edensor 2000;Haldrup and Larsen 2003;Finch 2007). Going away allows families to carve out space for intimacy that might be restricted by the spatial and temporal (re)ordering of domestic family routines, so, for example, parents might identify the need to spend time with their children (see Daly 2001;Carr 2011). Holiday is a realm of family life open to public scrutiny from acquaintances and colleagues.…”

Section: Holiday and Familymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday

Hall

Holdsworth

2014

Mobilities

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Holidays are central to the rhythm of everyday family practices and consumption, and are often depicted, within both academic literature and consumer marketing, as a defining moment in contemporary family life. To date, academic accounts of the experiences of travel and tourism have been mostly developed outside of the realm of everyday family practices and intimate relations. In this paper, therefore, we advance an interpretation of family holidays as a constituent of everyday family practices. To do this, we bring together three distinct yet interrelated conceptual frameworks: those of family practices, holiday and the everyday. Presenting and analysing data collected from ethnographic research with six families and exploring the themes of anticipation and utopian family practices, we identify how the notion of family holidays can be used a conduit for realising not only relationality between family members but also as a means of easing out the tensions and aspirations of everyday family life, a way to perfect the everyday and also to make it more palatable.

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Section: Anticipation -Saving and Earning A Holidaymentioning

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Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday

Hall

Holdsworth

2014

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“…Some of the children mentioned that the best part of the day was when they had the opportunity to hang out with their friends, to play and to eat treats that are not allowed back in school. These types of answers indicate that at least for some children, the main focus of the day is not the nature experience or the learning but, possibly, a chance to socialise and spend time with their friends in a less constrained environment than what the traditional school offers (Carr, 2011;Lai, 1999;Larsen & Jenssen, 2004;Merewether, 2015) or at least to relax and be with friends. Then again, some of the children's comments show that learning about, e.g.…”

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Developing ecological literacy in a forest garden: children’s perspectives

Hammarsten

Askerlund

Almers

et al. 2018

Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning

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Today, cities become more dense, green spaces disappear and children spend less time outdoors. Research suggests that these conditions create health problems and lack of ecological literacy. To reverse such trends, localities are creating urban green spaces for children to visit during school time. Drawing on ideas in ecological literacy, this study investigates school children's perspectives on a forest garden, a type of outdoor educational setting previously only scarcely researched. Data were collected through walk-and-talk conversations and informal interviews with 28 children aged 7 to 9. Many children in the study expressed strong positive feelings about the forest garden, the organized and spontaneous activities there, and caring for the organisms living there. We observed three aspects of learning in the data, potentially beneficial for the development of children's ecological literacy: practical competence, learning how to co-exist and care, and biological knowledge and ecological understanding.

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“…In this regard, the postmodern paradigm that highlights the person and his or her experiences as an object and perspective of social study (Carr, 2011) must also be interested in children as persons with rights and needs, and not merely in adults as consumers or formers of experiences. It is not only social research that is expected to explain social problems, but also to generate knowledge for modeling the desired future.…”

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Child Employment, a Controversial Issue; Analysis in Two Touristic Destinations

Pavón¹,

Jiménez²,

Néchar³

2019

JTHM

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Low-skilled employment is one of the noteworthy features of tourism activity in emerging and sometimes even consolidated destinations. As for child employment, such a situation is widely observed throughout several tourist destinations in Mexico. In this context, the general objective was to analyze the influence of tourism on child labor in Playa del Carmen and Cozumel, the two main tourist destinations in Quintana Roo. The following were determined as factors that foster or inhibit any practice that violates the rights of minors: tourism reputation, legal deficiencies, poverty situation. Outcomes will allow the design of better public policies against child labor in tourist destinations.

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Children's and Families' Holiday Experience

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Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday

Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday

Developing ecological literacy in a forest garden: children’s perspectives

Child Employment, a Controversial Issue; Analysis in Two Touristic Destinations

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