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  • Gillen Hancock 2006

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'A day in the life': exploring eating events involving two-year-old girls and their families in diverse communities.

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>12/2006
<mark>Journal</mark>Australian Journal of Early Childhood
Issue number4
Volume31
Number of pages7
Pages (from-to)23-29
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This article reports on a specific aspect of a larger study of ‘a day in the life’ of five two-and-a-half-year-old girls in families in Canada, Italy, Peru, Thailand and the UK. The larger study involved filming each of the five children in their family contexts for one whole day and studying a number of emerging themes related to the child’s development. The focus is on mealtimes and eating. Culture is regarded as a dynamic dimension of the child’s socialisation through which family practices around eating (often neglected as a research focus) are explored. Using the concept of an ‘eating event’, by analogy with a ‘literacy event’, close examination of video sequences reveal the extent to which children and carers, with differing desires and intentions, negotiate and collaborate to achieve mutually satisfactory ends.