The meaning of death for children and adolescents: A phenomenographic study of drawings

Tamm, Maare; Granqvist, Anna

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“…Essentially this involved thorough and repeated``reading'' of all drawings and comments noting qualitative similarities and differences. Using Tamm and Granqvist's (1995) categorical system as a coding template, the researcher analyzed all drawings and the complementary comments in a repeated and thorough manner, viewing each drawing and comment as a unit and noting qualitative similarities and differences in the drawings. Tamm and Granqvist identified a hierarchical category system, consisting of 3 superordinate and 10 subordinate categories.…”

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“…In a subsequent study, Tamm and Granqvist (1995) investigated 431 children in four age groups (9,12,15, and 18 years of both sexes) by using the same method. They identified and elaborated the following categorical system of 3 qualitative superordinate and 10 subordinate categories of children's depictions of death: (a) biological concepts that included 146 S. C.Yang and S-F. Chen violent death, moment of death and state of death, (b) psychological concepts consisting of sorrow, mental imagery, and emptiness, and (c) metaphysical concepts containing the tunnel phenomenon, mystery of death, death personification, and perceptions of death and hell.…”

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A Phenomenographic Approach to the Meaning of Death: A Chinese Perspective

Yang¹,

Chen²

2002

Death Studies

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The purpose of this study was to investigate qualitative and quantitative differences in Chinese children's concepts of death, as reflected in their drawings, and to analyze this conceptual development as it related to background variables (such as gender, age, religious belief, and heath status). Participants were 239 children in 6 grade groups recruited from primary and junior high school. The children were asked to draw their impression of the word "death" and to give a verbal commentary of what they had drawn. The drawings were analyzed according to a phenomenographic method and assigned to one of 3 superordinate and 12 subordinate qualitative categories, adapted from M. E.Tamm and A. Granqvist (1995). Metaphysical and biological death concepts dominated, while psychological death concepts were depicted least. Consistent with previous studies of the development of concepts of death in children, biological death concepts were most common for the younger age groups, and metaphysical death concepts were found predominately in the older age groups. Chi-square analysis revealed no significant differences among death concept categories as a function of the participants' gender, health status, religious belief, funeral attendance, or prior death of relatives or pets. The results are interpreted as providing a unique window on death concepts among Chinese children.

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A Phenomenographic Approach to the Meaning of Death: A Chinese Perspective

Yang¹,

Chen²

2002

Death Studies

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“…Looking upon the mangled body, before us, of a dead child, Arshad and Vikram began to develop their own theories and narratives of the moment (Nagy 1948;Tamm & Granqvist 1995). In the passage that follows (in which I am J and Vikram is V), Arshad (A) proposes a link between death and such children's precariousness, on the one hand, and the economy in which they are situated, on the other: of scavenging bottles (Figures It is not the economy of waste subsistence alone, however, that Arshad suggests is constitutive of the structures of risk (or the structural violence of risk) for these children, but also the spatialized relations of power in which the children exist, the train station life that itself represents the absence of other options.…”

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The Social Life of Death on Delhi's Streets: Unclaimed Souls, Pollutive Bodies, Dead Kin and the Kinless Dead

Steinberg

2013

Ethnos

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How does the status of 'street children' in life inflect the narrative representation of their deaths? Street-dwelling children's interactions with death in North India reveal much about how their identities are produced in public domains. In this paper, I examine several instances of 'homeless child' death to illuminate the place of such subjects in society and urban space, and to interrogate the degree to which they can be rendered 'recognizable' or 'grievable', in Butler's (2010) terminology. In particular, I explore the presence or absence of kin in the ways that child death is narrated. I also explore the related question of how living 'vagabond (aawara) children' situate their status in narratives of death and loss. I conclude with discussions of how children negotiate their orientations towards death through ghost narratives, and of the space-, economy-and age-bound assignment of pollutive tasks once reserved for low castes to street-dwelling children.keywords Childhood, death and dying, India, post-coloniality, suffering, homelessness 1. Petu, Frame Zero: Aperture and Passage J ust after lunch on 4 April 2011, at New Delhi Railway Station, a boy known to his friends only by the nickname Petu ('Tummyboy') ran alongside an accelerating long-haul train as it pulled away from the terminal, likely hoping either to ride it a short distance or to scavenge plastic bottles for cash. But as Petu climbed aboard, he fell. He became stuck, and as he tried to extract or right himself, he was dragged for a distance, and then run over. His legs were sliced off near the groin, and he died beside the tracks as the Shramjeevi Express continued on to Bihar. ethnos, vol. 80:2, 2015 (pp. 248-271), http://dx.

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“…Ти закључци Владимир М. Вукомановић Растегорац нису увек прихваћени и подржани (уп. на при-мер: Lazar, Torney-Purta, 1991;Tamm, Granqvist, 1995). Ипак, може се рећи да се усвајање супкон-цепата смрти окончава најкасније до дванаесте године, а да овладавање њима почиње знатно ра-није.…”

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“…Speece, Brent, 1984: 1684Lazar, Torney-Purta, 1991: 1330. Постоје и студије које су указале на разлике у размишљању о смр-ти код здраве деце и код оне која су оболела од рака (Jay et al, 1987), поједини аутори су се позабавили концептуали-зацијом смрти код ментално заостале деце (Sternlicht, 1980) или указали на нијансе које зависе од пола испитаника (Tamm, Granqvist, 1995;уп. код нас: Spasić, 2016: 532) и тако даље.…”

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Interpretation of poetry for children as an opportunity for death education: The whys and the how's

Vukomanovic-Rastegorac¹

2017

Inovacije u nastavi

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The meaning of death for children and adolescents: A phenomenographic study of drawings

Cited by 58 publications

References 17 publications

A Phenomenographic Approach to the Meaning of Death: A Chinese Perspective

A Phenomenographic Approach to the Meaning of Death: A Chinese Perspective

The Social Life of Death on Delhi's Streets: Unclaimed Souls, Pollutive Bodies, Dead Kin and the Kinless Dead

Interpretation of poetry for children as an opportunity for death education: The whys and the how's

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