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Jean Griffet - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sharing public space youth experience and socialization in marseille s borely park
Space and Culture, 2004Co-Authors: Olivier Laoustet, Jean GriffetAbstract:This article presents a field study conducted in a public park in a major city of southern France. Using a comprehensive approach and an Ethnographic Method, the goal is to gain insight into the everyday activities that govern the use of public space. By granting meaning to actions considered useless and insignificant, the purpose of this article is to understand how the sharing of public space, in particular the overcrowding observed in Borely Park, participates in youth socialization. People’s experiences and interactions in a public park create ties between them. The sharing of places, and the impressions generated as a result, help bring peers closer together while also bridging the generation gap. Through its description of how the youth use this metropolitan park, this study highlights the importance of the sense dimension in the building of societies. Finally, this work argues that youth are continually learning to live together without really realizing it.
Kristina Alda - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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walking as an Ethnographic Method sensory memories and intimacy of place in a post socialist czech neighbourhood breakout presentation
Journal of transport and health, 2017Co-Authors: Kristina AldaAbstract:Background Situated in a coal-rich region of the Czech Republic, the city of Ostrava, in the period between 1948 and 1989, was branded by socialist authorities as the country's 'industrial heart' and as a showcase of progressive urban living. The importance of architecture in organizing public life was well understood by socialist urban planners, who designed Ostrava's residential neighbourhoods with the intent to help to create ideal socialist citizens. Ostrava today is a depopulated and economically depressed city, but many of the socialist-designed spaces remain. Aim My research examines the tension between original design and use in Ostrava's socialist-designed neighbourhoods. Following the premise that how people interact with the urban spaces they inhabit is inextricably intertwined with each individual's specific movements, memories, affective experiences, interactions with others, as well as with the materiality of the spaces themselves, I was especially interested in local residents' visceral experiences of inhabiting spaces originally designed to promote socialist progress. Method In addition to semi-structured sit-down interviews, I conducted walk-along interviews with some of my 50 informants as part of an 18-month Ethnographic study in Ostrava. The walk-along interviews were video recorded, so that it was possible to later analyze how the informants moved through their environment and what gestures they used when interacting with their surroundings. Results Most long-term residents had developed intimate relationships with their neighbourhood and paid little attention to the ideological intentions behind the design. Incorporating walking with sit-down interviews enabled me to collect richer data that went beyond the verbal and the visual by combining both. The walk-along gave access to aspects of the lived experience harder to address in a standard interview, such as spatial practices, locally situated biographies, and sensory memories. Conclusions Ostrava's socialist-designed spaces are used and experienced in ways that often contradict the original intents of the planners. Sensory experiences play an important role in people's interaction with the built environment, and these embodied interactions contribute to how public spaces are co-constructed, appropriated, and made familiar. Walking can be an effective Method in examining the intimate relationship between people and built space.
Olivier Laoustet - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sharing public space youth experience and socialization in marseille s borely park
Space and Culture, 2004Co-Authors: Olivier Laoustet, Jean GriffetAbstract:This article presents a field study conducted in a public park in a major city of southern France. Using a comprehensive approach and an Ethnographic Method, the goal is to gain insight into the everyday activities that govern the use of public space. By granting meaning to actions considered useless and insignificant, the purpose of this article is to understand how the sharing of public space, in particular the overcrowding observed in Borely Park, participates in youth socialization. People’s experiences and interactions in a public park create ties between them. The sharing of places, and the impressions generated as a result, help bring peers closer together while also bridging the generation gap. Through its description of how the youth use this metropolitan park, this study highlights the importance of the sense dimension in the building of societies. Finally, this work argues that youth are continually learning to live together without really realizing it.
Patricia Shehan Campbell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a university school music partnership for music education majors in a culturally distinctive community
Journal of Research in Music Education, 2009Co-Authors: Amanda Christina Soto, Patricia Shehan CampbellAbstract:University—community collaborations are a fairly recent phenomenon, which has often been manifested through the establishment of university partnerships with schools. This research sought to document the process and outcomes of a university—school collaboration called Music Alive! in the Valley (MAV), a yearlong partnership between 33 university music education students and faculty with an elementary school within a rural location of a western state. MAV was intended to serve a Mexican American migrant community whose children frequently spoke only Spanish at home and to provide occasions for university students of music education to engage in positive social contact via music performances, participation, and training experiences. An Ethnographic Method was employed by which observations, interviews, and examination of material culture were assembled over the course of the school year, and an assessment was offered of the benefits and challenges in the creation of a music education partnership in distinct...
Victoria Odonnell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the formation of interpersonal and learning relationships in the transition from primary to secondary school students teachers and school context
International Journal of Educational Research, 2013Co-Authors: Jane Tobbell, Victoria OdonnellAbstract:Abstract The importance of relationships in education has been well established in the literature. However, the nature of relationship is seldom defined and as a result interpersonal and learning relationships are conflated and so implicitly treated as synonymous. Here we argue that learning relationships are different from interpersonal relationships, but crucially that interpersonal relationships are a pre-requisite to learning relationships. There is a paucity of research which examines relationship formation, especially at the point of transition from one school to another when there is a normative imperative to form new relationships. In this paper the experiences of students in their transition to secondary school are explored and we focus on relationships with their new teachers. An Ethnographic Method was employed which followed children during their final year of primary school and into their first year of secondary school. Through fieldnotes, interview data and document analysis student and staff voices and contextual practices illuminate relationship formation. We present data from three schools in the UK under the themes of courtesy, rules and resistance, and school systems and pedagogical practice. The data demonstrate that attention must be paid to the construction of enabling transition contexts to facilitate the formation of interpersonal relationships which may lead to learning relationships in the new school.