Heidi Fung
Biographic Data
| ID | 115583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidi Fung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidi |
| FAMILY NAME | Fung |
| SIGNATURE | FUNG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5129-776X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 329 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Culture at work
In this article, we highlight three assumptions about culture that guide our research: (1) culture is lived but often implicitly; (2) philosophical origins illuminate cultural core values in the here and now; and (3) cultures differ. We focus on learning both in European-heritage and in Confucian-heritage cultures. To address the central question “how does the cultural become the personal?” we take three steps. First, we explain the importance of…
Cultivating Affection-Laden Hierarchy
By adopting a discursive practice approach, this work examines how embodied deference rituals were practiced by Vietnamese children in the Mekong Delta region. Sixty-two video-recorded events of vòng tay/khoanh tay performed by 23 children (ages 1.5 to 12 years) were identified; of those, 51 events performed by 12 preschool-aged children were most rigorous and demanding. On the occasions of greeting/departing, thanking, and apology/discipline and…
I. Introduction
Narrative is as much part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood." In recent years, scholars from developmental psychology and allied disciplines have converged on children's narratives, seeking insight into a host of important topics: memory, affect, self and identity, gender, attachment, family dynamics, and narrative itself (e.g., Bamberg, 1997; Daiute & Lightfoot, 2004; Dyson & Genishi, 1994; Emde, Wolf, & Oppenheim, 2003;…
Across Time and Beyond Skin
This study examines the construction of the culture‐specific self through a form of seemingly harmful socializing practices among young Taiwanese children. Spontaneous daily family interactions have been systematically and longitudinally videotaped in seven families and events of shame are found to occur regularly at all datapoints. One third of these events occur in chains, involving multiple episodes about the child’s transgressions committed a…
Narrating Transgressions in Longwood
The goal of this study is to deepen our understanding of a set of narrative practices in European‐American families in which young children's transgressions are downplayed or erased, a pattern that is cast in relief by the frequent, foregrounded narration of young children's transgressions in Taiwanese families. Evidence from the mothers'folk theories is used to illuminate these patterns, revealing that the pattern is reversed with respect to the…
Becoming a Moral Child
In an effort to understand shame in Chinese terms, this ethnographic study examines parental beliefs and practices with respect to shame, as well as young children's participation in shaming events. Nine middle-class Taiwanese families participated in this study. Interviews with the primary caregivers and longitudinal observations of spontaneous home interactions revealed that the socialization of shame was well underway by age two-and-a-half. Tw…
Personal Storytelling as a Medium of Socialization in Chinese and American Families
The goal of this study was to determine how personal storytelling functions as a socializing practice within the family context in middle-class Taiwanese and middle-class European American families. The data consist of more than 200 naturally occurring stories in which the past experiences of the focal child, aged 2,6, were narrated. These stories were analyzed at 3 levels: content, function, and structure. Findings converged across these analyti…
Self-Construction through Narrative Practices
Narrative practices and the social construction of self in childhood
Narrative, self, and face‐to‐face interaction all intersect in everyday storytelling practices in which children and caregivers make claims to personal experiences. This article examines such practices as a site for the social construction of self in early childhood. Drawing upon excerpts of narrative talk from a variety of cultural traditions in the United States, we describe the self‐relevant meanings and processes entailed in three particular …
Becoming a Moral Child
In an effort to understand shame in Chinese terms, this ethnographic study examines parental beliefs and practices with respect to shame, as well as young children's participation in shaming events. Nine middle-class Taiwanese families participated in this study. Interviews with the primary caregivers and longitudinal observations of spontaneous home interactions revealed that the socialization of shame was well underway by age two-and-a-half. Tw…
Personal Storytelling as a Medium of Socialization in Chinese and American Families
The goal of this study was to determine how personal storytelling functions as a socializing practice within the family context in middle-class Taiwanese and middle-class European American families. The data consist of more than 200 naturally occurring stories in which the past experiences of the focal child, aged 2,6, were narrated. These stories were analyzed at 3 levels: content, function, and structure. Findings converged across these analyti…
Narrative practices and the social construction of self in childhood
Narrative, self, and face‐to‐face interaction all intersect in everyday storytelling practices in which children and caregivers make claims to personal experiences. This article examines such practices as a site for the social construction of self in early childhood. Drawing upon excerpts of narrative talk from a variety of cultural traditions in the United States, we describe the self‐relevant meanings and processes entailed in three particular …
Self-Construction through Narrative Practices
Across Time and Beyond Skin
This study examines the construction of the culture‐specific self through a form of seemingly harmful socializing practices among young Taiwanese children. Spontaneous daily family interactions have been systematically and longitudinally videotaped in seven families and events of shame are found to occur regularly at all datapoints. One third of these events occur in chains, involving multiple episodes about the child’s transgressions committed a…
I. Introduction
Narrative is as much part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood." In recent years, scholars from developmental psychology and allied disciplines have converged on children's narratives, seeking insight into a host of important topics: memory, affect, self and identity, gender, attachment, family dynamics, and narrative itself (e.g., Bamberg, 1997; Daiute & Lightfoot, 2004; Dyson & Genishi, 1994; Emde, Wolf, & Oppenheim, 2003;…
Narrating Transgressions in Longwood
The goal of this study is to deepen our understanding of a set of narrative practices in European‐American families in which young children's transgressions are downplayed or erased, a pattern that is cast in relief by the frequent, foregrounded narration of young children's transgressions in Taiwanese families. Evidence from the mothers'folk theories is used to illuminate these patterns, revealing that the pattern is reversed with respect to the…
Cultivating Affection-Laden Hierarchy
By adopting a discursive practice approach, this work examines how embodied deference rituals were practiced by Vietnamese children in the Mekong Delta region. Sixty-two video-recorded events of vòng tay/khoanh tay performed by 23 children (ages 1.5 to 12 years) were identified; of those, 51 events performed by 12 preschool-aged children were most rigorous and demanding. On the occasions of greeting/departing, thanking, and apology/discipline and…
Narrative practices and the social construction of self in childhood
Narrative, self, and face‐to‐face interaction all intersect in everyday storytelling practices in which children and caregivers make claims to personal experiences. This article examines such practices as a site for the social construction of self in early childhood. Drawing upon excerpts of narrative talk from a variety of cultural traditions in the United States, we describe the self‐relevant meanings and processes entailed in three particular …
Self-Construction through Narrative Practices
Personal Storytelling as a Medium of Socialization in Chinese and American Families
The goal of this study was to determine how personal storytelling functions as a socializing practice within the family context in middle-class Taiwanese and middle-class European American families. The data consist of more than 200 naturally occurring stories in which the past experiences of the focal child, aged 2,6, were narrated. These stories were analyzed at 3 levels: content, function, and structure. Findings converged across these analyti…
Becoming a Moral Child
In an effort to understand shame in Chinese terms, this ethnographic study examines parental beliefs and practices with respect to shame, as well as young children's participation in shaming events. Nine middle-class Taiwanese families participated in this study. Interviews with the primary caregivers and longitudinal observations of spontaneous home interactions revealed that the socialization of shame was well underway by age two-and-a-half. Tw…
Across Time and Beyond Skin
This study examines the construction of the culture‐specific self through a form of seemingly harmful socializing practices among young Taiwanese children. Spontaneous daily family interactions have been systematically and longitudinally videotaped in seven families and events of shame are found to occur regularly at all datapoints. One third of these events occur in chains, involving multiple episodes about the child’s transgressions committed a…
Narrating Transgressions in Longwood
The goal of this study is to deepen our understanding of a set of narrative practices in European‐American families in which young children's transgressions are downplayed or erased, a pattern that is cast in relief by the frequent, foregrounded narration of young children's transgressions in Taiwanese families. Evidence from the mothers'folk theories is used to illuminate these patterns, revealing that the pattern is reversed with respect to the…
I. Introduction
Narrative is as much part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood." In recent years, scholars from developmental psychology and allied disciplines have converged on children's narratives, seeking insight into a host of important topics: memory, affect, self and identity, gender, attachment, family dynamics, and narrative itself (e.g., Bamberg, 1997; Daiute & Lightfoot, 2004; Dyson & Genishi, 1994; Emde, Wolf, & Oppenheim, 2003;…
Cultivating Affection-Laden Hierarchy
By adopting a discursive practice approach, this work examines how embodied deference rituals were practiced by Vietnamese children in the Mekong Delta region. Sixty-two video-recorded events of vòng tay/khoanh tay performed by 23 children (ages 1.5 to 12 years) were identified; of those, 51 events performed by 12 preschool-aged children were most rigorous and demanding. On the occasions of greeting/departing, thanking, and apology/discipline and…
Culture at work
In this article, we highlight three assumptions about culture that guide our research: (1) culture is lived but often implicitly; (2) philosophical origins illuminate cultural core values in the here and now; and (3) cultures differ. We focus on learning both in European-heritage and in Confucian-heritage cultures. To address the central question “how does the cultural become the personal?” we take three steps. First, we explain the importance of…
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