Puroila2013

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Puroila2013
BibType ARTICLE
Key Puroila2013
Author(s) Anna-Maija Puroila
Title Young children on the stages: Small stories performed in day care centers
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Tag(s) EMCA, Children
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Year 2013
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Journal Narrative Inquiry
Volume 23
Number 2
Pages 323–343
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DOI 10.1075/ni.23.2.06pur
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In this article, I approach day care centers as stages upon which various small stories are constructed and performed by young children and other interlocutors. The aim of the article is two-fold. Methodologically, the paper is a tentative application of Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical perspective onto narrative research with children. Empirically, the aim is to explore day care centers as narrative environments that constitute children’s lives and identities. I anchor my analysis and interpretation of research material, collected in two groups of children, in three perspectives. Firstly, I focus on the spatial practices of the day care centers, framing the construction of small stories. Secondly, I deal with the production of small stories between cultural routines and active reconstruction. Finally, I draw attention to children’s identity construction as a continuous process influenced by a variety of individual, material, contextual, cultural, and interactional factors.

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