Memory, space and time: Researching children’s lives

Abstract

This article discusses the research approach in 'Pathways through Childhood', a small qualitative study drawing on memories of childhood. The research explores how wider social arrangements and social change influence children's everyday lives. The article discusses the way that the concepts of social memory, space and time have been drawn on to access and analyze children's experiences arguing that attention to the temporal and spatial complexity of childhood reveals less visible yet formative influences and connections. Children's everyday engagements involve connections between past and present time, between children, families, communities and nations, and between different places. Children carve out space and time for themselves from these complex relations.Childhood memory space time society

Karakteristik Taman Menteri Soepeno sebagai Taman Ramah Anak di Kota Semarang

“…Pemberian perhatian pada ruang-rang sementara yang komplek dapat megungkapkan beberapa pemandangan bentuk koneksi dalam keseharian hidup. Koneksi ini meliputi hubungan antara masa lalu, masa kini, antara anak, kelarga, komunitas dan bangsa serta antara perbedaan tempat (Moss, 2010). Berdasarkan hal tersebut maka sangatlah penting memberikan perhatian kepada anak-anak, karena seorang anak memiliki memori kolektif yang terbawa sampai pada masa dewasanya sehingga sangatlah penting seorang anak berada dalam lingkungan yang harmonis dan dalam pengasuhan yang benar untuk memberikan memori kolektif dan bekal masa dewasa yang bagus.…”

Is Chess Just a Game, or is it a Mirror that Reflects the Child's Inner World?

“…Although there is not any question related with social or media effects on child's development in this study, there are extensive and effective studies on literature about those effects. For instance, Moss (2010) stated that children are directly involved in wide social experience; social events (wars, religions and migrations) and events are constructed and interpreted through familiar and collective memory. Besides, media is also another tool that has deep effects on children.…”

Border encounters: How children navigate space and otherness in an ethnically divided society

“…Similarly, in his work with Palestinian children living in a refugee camp in Jordan, Jason Hart (2002: 36, 46) reminds us of the significance that physical space has in children's engagement with nationalist projects: children's sense of national belonging is not an abstract relation with discourses of identity but is embedded in 'the localized constructions of community' that children engage in at particular historical moments. Recent work on children and childhood, while not necessarily in a conflict context, has drawn attention to the temporal and spatial aspects of children's lives (Hammad, 2011;Hart, 2002;Holloway and Valentine, 2000a, 2000b, 2000cMoss, 2010). Jukarainen (2003), for example, showed how young people living close to the Finnish border with Sweden and Russia revitalize the concept of the nation through their spatial identity frameworks while continuing to be active agents in the construction of national identity.…”