Grappling with an Ethnography of the "Global" in a Preschool Presentation

 

Dr. Zsuzsa Millei is a Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, Australia and currently a visiting scholar at Tampere University, Finland.

 

In this presentation, Dr. Millei will tell the story of designing and  conducting the project titled Multiple worlds in a  preschool: Children’s place making in a globalizing world. The project aims to develop theorised understandings of children’s everydays in the preschool that accounts for the  ‘global’. During the planning, one of the starting points was that ethnography is cast in childhood studies research as a suitable methodology for researching with young children and for examining their social worlds. The other was to arrive at understandings of what ‘globalization’ and the ‘global’ entail, how it shapes children’s everydays and how to capture that with ethnography. This problem remained constant all through the project. The search for and grappling with concepts, theories and methods ran and still runs parallel with rethinking her understanding of ethnography, her engagements during the fieldwork and  in the overall conduct and representation of research. In order to tell a version of this story, she focuses on methodological ‘hot spots’ or difficult situations erupted in her study. 

 

 

Program website: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/research-and-innovation/centre/education-arts/ciegun/research/multiple-worlds-in-a-preschool-childrens-place-making-in-a-globalising-world