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Maropo, Lidia; de Carvalho, Raiana; Jorge, Ana – Global Studies of Childhood, 2021
This article looks at the social and cultural contexts of children's experiences of illness, through a particular focus on the context of the Global South and the role of the social media platform YouTube in children's culture. It takes a socio-constructivist approach to discuss the case of "CarecaTV" (BaldTV), a Brazilian YouTube…
Descriptors: Children, Cancer, Personal Narratives, Cultural Context
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Burningham, Kate; Venn, Susan; Hayward, Bronwyn; Nissen, Sylvia; Aoyagi, Midori; Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi; Jackson, Tim; Jha, Vimlendu; Mattar, Helio; Schudel, Ingrid; Yoshida, Aya – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2020
Existing literatures have discussed both ethical issues in visual research with young people, and the problems associated with applying 'universal' ethical guidelines across varied cultural contexts. There has been little consideration, however, of specific issues raised in projects where visual research is being conducted with young people…
Descriptors: Ethics, Photography, Foreign Countries, Research Projects
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Souto-Manning, Mariana – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2014
In this article, I question the micro-macro separation in discourse analysis, the separation of personal and institutional discourses. I apply a mostly macroanalytic perspective (critical discourse analysis [CDA]) to inform a predominantly microanalytic perspective (analysis of conversational narratives) and vice versa. In the combination of these…
Descriptors: Criticism, Discourse Analysis, Power Structure, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Schmidt, Maria Auxiliadora; Garcia, Tania Maria F. Braga – Education 3-13, 2010
This paper presents the results of an investigation which was part of a project called "Recreating Histories". It is concerned with the analysis of historical narratives created by the children who participated in the project and an analysis of historical sources kept by families who live in Campina Grande do Sul (Brazil). It draws on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Literacy Education, Children
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Jennings, Louise B.; Da Matta, Gylton B. – Teaching Education, 2009
This study focuses upon the narratives of women educators ("educadoras") who contributed to radical democratic school reforms in post-authoritarian Brazil. We illustrate through three of the teachers' narratives how their professional identities and actions were shaped partly by their experiences of resisting the military regime and by…
Descriptors: Social Action, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Womens Studies
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Santos, Silvana; Bizzo, Nelio – Science Education, 2005
This study focuses on everyday or lay understandings of inheritance. In the northeastern Brazil, 100 individuals were interviewed in order to describe how they explain the origin of genetic disorders affecting their relatives for several generations. There were involved 60 individuals from a large consanguineous family with many members affected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Family (Sociological Unit), Genetics