Relational Analysis and the Ethnographic Approach: Constructing Preschool Childhood

Autor/inn/en	Raittila, Raija; Vuorisalo, Mari
Titel	Relational Analysis and the Ethnographic Approach: Constructing Preschool Childhood
Quelle	In: Ethnography and Education, 16 (2021) 3, S.358-372 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Raittila, Raija) ORCID (Vuorisalo, Mari)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1745 -7823
DOI	10.1080/17457823.2021.1872396
Schlagwörter	Ethnography; Preschool Education; Educational Sociology; Foreign Countries; Preschool Children; Interpersonal Relationship; Student Experience; Cultural Context; Context Effect; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Bildungssoziologie; Erziehungssoziologie; Ausland; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschule; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Studienerfahrung; Finnland
Abstract	This article elaborates the relational ontology in an ethnographic study. The aim is to seek relational construction of preschool practice and how children's positions are constructed in it. The study is based on the understanding that ethnography and relational sociology share the idea that society emerges through repeated relations. The ontological thinking of relational sociology is applied in a micro-level analysis of three episodes from a Finnish preschool. We propose that relations appear in every single ethnographical episode and that carefully analysed repetitive relations can reveal a stabilised organisational structure. The analysis shows how the position of one child is structuring and being structured in everyday actions in a preschool. We argue that through relational analysis of ethnographic data, it is possible to seek sociological knowledge of institutions -- in this case, of preschool. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01