Favoured Free-Time: Comparing Children's Activity Preferences in the UK and the USA

Autor/in	Griffiths, Merris
Titel	Favoured Free-Time: Comparing Children's Activity Preferences in the UK and the USA
Quelle	In: Children & Society, 25 (2011) 3, S.190-201 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-0605
DOI	10.1111/j.1099-0860.2009.00273.x
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Children; Leisure Time; Childhood Interests; Athletics; Play; Recreational Activities; Interpersonal Relationship; Mass Media Use; Ceremonies; Neighborhoods; Cross Cultural Studies; Comparative Analysis; United Kingdom; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Child; Kind; Kinder; Freizeit; Leichtathletik; Spiel; Freizeitgestaltung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Mediennutzung; Zeremoniell; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Großbritannien; USA
Abstract	This study presents a comparative study of the free-time activity preferences of 9- to 11-year-old children in the UK and USA, as drawn by them in art workshops. Six themes emerged relating to sport, outdoor play, family/peers, media, special occasions and other (indefinable) activities. The children's talk about their drawings revealed additional preferences for "obsessive hobbies", "doing nothing", relationships with others, and the local environment. Whilst the emergent patterns displayed strong cross-cultural similarities in free-time activity choices and participation, as well as compliance with the conventional construction of "childhood", the findings were context-specific and locally inflected. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10