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- Title
Lastenkoti dokumentoituna, kerrottuna ja yhdessä muisteltuna.
- Authors
Eronen, Tuija
- Abstract
The article looks at what different types of documents and co-remembering can tell about life in a children's home. In this article co-operative research is used to combine social work documentation research and narrative inquiry. Co-research and co-remembering are used with two young adult women to research different documents of their lives in a children's home. They lived in the same children's home in the late 1990's. The young adults brought daily reports, case summaries, photographs and videos to discussion sessions. In analysis these documents were divided into institutional and personal/community documents. These different types of documentation together with co-remembering produce a multivocal story about the children's home and childhood there. Documentation of life in children's homes should include both personal/community and institutional documents. During and after living in children's homes people should be given opportunities to co-remember and tell stories together to ensure empowering personal and cultural continuity. Institutional documentation alone is too restricted for this.
- Subjects
QUALITY of life; SOCIAL services; SOCIAL surveys; INSTITUTIONAL care of children; CHILD rearing; CHILD welfare; STORYTELLING; INSTITUTIONAL care; SOCIAL science research
- Publication
Janus, 2008, Vol 16, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
1235-7812
- Publication type
Article