Oh, No! It Would Not Be Proper to Discuss That with You”
Reflections on Gender and the Experience of Childhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12009994 |
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| Authors | Jean Barman (University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-67 |
| Publication date | 1994-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Curriculum Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-6784 • E-ISSN: 1467-873X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03626784.1994.11076148 |
| OpenAlex | W2033464329 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
A paucity of first-hand, contemporaneous materials on the experience of childhood turns researchers' attention to memory and, more specifically, to ethnography and oral history as possible methodologies. The essay examines the two methodologies' strengths and weaknesses for retrieving the experience of childhood. Particular attention is given to ethnographers' and oral historians' perceptions of the role played by gender in shaping recollections of childhood. In general, women tend to remember their childhood as lived within the context of others, men with themselves as the actor
Childhood memory · Childhood studies · Cognition · Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Early childhood · Early childhood education · Ethnography · History of childhood · Oral history · Perception · Poison control · Sociology · Strengths and weaknesses · Anthropology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · History · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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