Description
When interacting with children, caregivers draw on culturally available discourses and normative expectations. From an ethnomethodological perspective, children are socialized into membership which is demonstrated in the display and recognition of reflexively accountable action (Garfinkel & Sacks, 1970). The present study is interested in how children are socialized into acceptable ways of bodily conduct in preschool settings by analyzing situations where the teacher seeks to have the children engage in, or desist from, some course of action. Analysis looks on the one hand on how teachers produce moral evaluations, and assign blame and culpability regarding children’s bodily conduct, and how embodied practices are used in tandem to discursive practices by the teachers. The data corpus comprises video-recorded interactions in a North Indian preschool with 5-year old children collected during a larger ethnographic study over a period of 3 months. Analysis is based on Discursive Psychology (Potter & Wetherell, 1987; Wiggins, 2017) and Multimodal Interaction Analysis (Goodwin, 2000). Children used subtle embodied interactional moves to express their defiance followed by the teacher’s re-framing of the situation. By their joint interactional moves, both teacher and child manage to not threaten the teacher’s authority while allowing for the child to resist certain power exertion in culturally acceptable ways. The findings provide insights into the interactive processes through which children are socialized towards a cultural ‘choreography’ of conflict resolution in teacher-child settings. We also discuss how social stances and identities are conveyed and constructed through various discursive and embodied communicative resources.| Period | 18 Jun 2021 |
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| Event title | International Conference of the Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology (EQuiP): Creating Bridges |
| Event type | Conference |
| Conference number | 1 |
| Location | Thessaloniki, GreeceShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |