“By creating we think, by living we learn” Patrick Geddes
The research explores changing everyday lives of children in the largest housing estate in the Central Europe, Bratislava-Petrzalka, with a particular focus on how children constitute themselves in different modes of their subjectivities and how these processes contribute to the formation of place where they live. The main core of the research is undertaken in the most deprived are of the housing estate through direct collaboration with a local community centre in a split role as researcher/outreach social worker with children and young people. The in-depth approach focuses on how everyday spaces of childhood, such as home, school or street play intertwined roles in the everydayness of childhood along with a diverse range of issues such as people, institutions, histories, emotions, tangible objects etc. Complementary, diverse social, economic, political and cultural contexts of the periods of socialism and of the post-socialist change are explored in conjunction with a micro-level of the analysis.
Methodologically, the research is based on the ethnographical approach through a double role of researcher/outreach social worker accompanied by participatory involvement with other actors in the field through a diverse range of activities, such as participatory interviewing or video-production. A documents-based study accompanies the project with a focus on exploration of a broader context of children's everyday lives.
del.icio.us
digg
reddit
facebook
stumbleupon