Affectionate Touch and Care: Embodied Intimacy, Compassion and Control in Early Childhood Education

Autor/inn/en	Cekaite, Asta; Bergnehr, Disa
Titel	Affectionate Touch and Care: Embodied Intimacy, Compassion and Control in Early Childhood Education
Quelle	In: European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 26 (2018) 6, S.940-955 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1350-293X
DOI	10.1080/1350293X.2018.1533710
Schlagwörter	Interpersonal Relationship; Intimacy; Emotional Response; Child Development; Well Being; Early Childhood Education; Preschool Children; Teacher Student Relationship; Altruism; Affective Behavior; Foreign Countries; Tactual Perception; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Intimität; Emotionales Verhalten; Kindesentwicklung; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Ausland; Taktile Wahrnehmung; Schweden
Abstract	Relational care, interpersonal intimacy and emotional attunement are crucial for children's development and wellbeing in ECEC. The present study examines how they are enacted in a Swedish preschool (for 1-5-year-olds) through recurrent adult-child physical conduct, i.e. affectionate and affectionate-controlling touch. The data consist of 24 hours of video-recorded observations of everyday activities. The study shows that educators' Affectionate-Comforting touch was used for emotion regulation as compassionate response to children's distress; Amicable touch engaged children in spontaneous affection; and, Affectionate-Controlling touch was used to mildly control and direct the child's bodily conduct and participation in preschool activities, or to mitigate the educators' verbal disciplining. The study demonstrates the emotional complexity of ECEC enacted through the practices of haptic sociality. It supports the holistic policies arguing that embodied relational care should be integrated in ECEC, contrary to ideas that connect professionalism with emotional distance and lack of physical contact. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01