Burdelski2020a

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Burdelski2020a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Burdelski2020a
Author(s) Matthew Burdelski
Title Teacher compassionate touch in a Japanese preschool
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Tag(s) EMCA, Affect, Children, Compassion, Japan, Preschool, Touch
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Year 2020
Language English
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Journal Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality
Volume 3
Number 1
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DOI 10.7146/si.v3i1.120248
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Abstract

This paper examines the discursive, embodied, and sequential organization of preschool teachers’ compassionate touch in interaction: physically touching a child so as to soothe and relieve the child’s distress. Utilizing multimodal conversation analysis, episodes of compassionate touch were identified and transcribed from a corpus of 48 hours of audio-visual recordings in a Japanese preschool. The analysis focuses on such touch within situations of peer conflict and accidents during play. It shows how compassionate touch was used with verbal resources and communicative practices, examines their positioning within sequences of interaction, and discusses children’s responses. The findings attempt to further our understanding of affective touch in children’s sociality and preschool childcare.

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