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Un'infanzia fatta di scienza e arte
2020
I contributi presentati in questo volume echeggiano tra di loro come un gioco di risonanze che travalicano ogni confine tra discipline per scavare tra le radici dell’umanità. Il testo è diviso in due parti idealmente collegate da una comune prospettiva sui bambini e sul loro modo conoscere e di entrare in relazione col mondo con gli occhi delle scienze e delle arti. L’approccio olistico, la curiosità e l’immaginazione, la libertà esplorativa e il piacere di creare connessioni tra le cose su piani diversi coinvolge totalmente singoli soggetti e gruppi, menti e corpi secondo una logica che rende impossibile segnare una demarcazione netta tra scienza e arte, soprattutto quando si parla di bamb…
I bambini e l'arte, l'arte dei bambini. Riflessioni sulla creatività
2020
In cosa consiste l’arte dei bambini? Che rapporti ha con lo sviluppo ma anche con il pensiero creativo in senso stretto e cosa ci dice, quindi, delle radici ontogenetiche della creatività umana e cosa delle sue caratteristiche? Le modalità di conoscenza e di espressione infantili ci riportano anche alla fascinazione degli adulti nei confronti dei processi creativi e di pensiero dei bambini. Ma quali sono le ragioni di un tale fascino? Cosa, simbolicamente, l’adulto vede, desidera, rimpiange? Tracciare, in questa prospettiva, una continuità tra le prime fasi della vita e lo sviluppo successivo può aiutare a riflettere sui modi di funzionare degli esseri umani, ma comporta, parallelamente, la…
Agricultural crop exposure and risk of childhood cancer: new findings from a case–control study in Spain
2016
Background Childhood cancer is the main cause of disease-related death in children in Spain. Although little is known about the etiology, environmental factors are potential explanations for a fraction of the cases. Previous studies have shown pesticides to be associated with childhood cancer. The difficulty of collecting personal environmental exposure data is an important limitation; this lack of information about pesticides motivates the development of new methods to subrogate this exposure. We developed a crop exposure index based on geographic information to study the relationship between exposure to different types of crops and risk of childhood tumors. Methods We conducted a populati…
Comparison of motor competence in children aged 6-9 years across northern, central, and southern European regions.
2019
The present study aimed at examining differences in motor competence (MC) in children aged 6 to 9 years old in northern, central, and southern European regions using the Körperkoordinationstest für Kinder (KTK). The secondary aim of the study was to examine interactions between region and children's age, sex and weight status (determined as healthy weight or overweight/obese). Data was pooled from independent studies conducted in Finland (mean age 7.81 ± 1.19 years, n = 690), Belgium (mean age 8.25 ± 1.09 years, n = 1,896) and Portugal (mean age 8.31 ± 1.02 years, n = 758) between 2008 and 2016. Cross-cultural differences in MC and interaction effects were tested using ANOVAs and ANCOVAs. A…
Child and adolescent time use : a cross-national study
2021
Objective.- This study examined the differences in child and adolescent time use across the following three countries with distinct policy and cultural regimes: Finland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Background.- Studying children's time use cross-nationally is urgent to better understand how societal contexts influence children's daily lives in ways that affect their future lifestyles, development, and identity formation. Yet previous studies have largely omitted this important question. Method.- The study used 2009 to 015 time-diary data on children aged 10 to 17 from Finland, Spain, and the United Kingdom (N = 3,491). Multivariate linear regression models examined (a) between-country an…
Trajectories of Prosocial Behavior and Physical Aggression in Middle Childhood: Links to Adolescent School Dropout and Physical Violence
2006
Trajectories of prosocial behavior and physical aggression between 6 and 12 years of age were identified for a sample (N=1,025) of males. The trajectories were then used to predict school dropout and physical violence at age 17. Using a group-based semi-parametric method, two trajectories of prosociality (low and moderate declining) and three trajectories of physical aggression (low, moderate, and high declining) were obtained. Only a small minority (3.4%) of the boys were characterized by both high aggression and moderate prosociality. Physical aggression predicted both school dropout and physical violence, but contrary to expectations, prosocial behavior did not have additive or protectiv…
‘Cos I’m a Survivor’
2018
In post-war Finland thousands of children experienced poor upbringing, neglect and abuse, and had to deal with their experiences without social support from adults. In this article we study how difficult and bitter experiences related to childhood crises are remembered, reinterpreted and reframed in later life and in contemporary Finland. As research material we use both oral and written reminiscences of childhood in the post-war years collected in the period 2014–2016. We argue that in the recollections of difficult childhood coping and resilience emerge as major narrative themes. Although informants in their childhood were forced to suffer in silence, they remember themselves as being res…
Epistemic governance in local policy debates : The case of entitlement to early childhood education and care in Finland
2019
In Finland, children below school age have enjoyed the right to attend subsidised full-time early childhood education and care (ECEC). However, the attendance rate in Finland is low in comparison to other Nordic countries. Furthermore, the entitlement was restricted to 20 h per week in 2016 unless the child’s parents work or study full-time or unless it is believed that the child will benefit from full-time ECEC. The debates concerning restrictions in ECEC entitlement in three municipal councils serve as the data for this study. By using the framework of epistemic governance, we identify three differing constructions of the ECEC’s societal functions in the municipal policy debates. The simi…
Teoria do bem-estar das crianças
2010
O texto discute as contribuições dos novos Estudos sobre a Infância em face da importância que têm assumido as crianças e a infância nos processos de reconfiguração do bem-estar social nas sociedades ocidentais avançadas. The text discusses the contributions of new Studies on Childhood, given the importance that children and childhood have assumed in the process of reconfiguring social welfare in advanced Western societies.
Landscapes of Loss and Destruction: Sámi Elders’ Childhood Memories of the Second World War Sámi Elders’ Childhood Memories of the Second World War
2019
The so-called Lapland War between Finland and Germany at the end of the Second World War led to a mass-scale destruction of Lapland. Both local Finnish residents and the indigenous Sami groups lost their homes, and their livelihoods suffered in many ways. The narratives of these deeply traumatic experiences have long been neglected and suppressed in Finland and have been studied only recently by academics and acknowledged in public. In this text, we analyze the interviews with four elders of one Sami village, Vuotso. We explore their memories, from a child’s perspective, scrutinizing the narration as a multilayered affective process that involves sensual and embodied dimensions of memory.