“A Day in the Life” is an interdisciplinary approach to studying thriving people, often very young children, that has been taken up and adapted in many different global locations. This website is an umbrella to showcase the work that has been done by several international teams of researchers since 2002. At the centre of the innovative project methodology is the videoing of ‘A Day in the Life’ of resilient individuals, whether children, youth, or much older people and then the iterative reviewing of some of that data with project participants. Teams of researchers, bringing their various disciplinary backgrounds and experiences, discuss and analyse their results.<\/p>\n
Callaghan, T., Colasante, S., Muhammad, T., Corbit, J., Yavuz\u2010Muren, M., Raffaele, C., Akter, R., Al Janaideh, R., Duan, T-Y., Didkowsky, N., Beuze, J-N., Homer, B., Cameron, C.A., & Malti, T. (2024).\u00a0<\/span>Fostering prosociality in refugee children: An intervention with Rohingya children.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Monograph of the Society for Research in Child Development<\/i>, 89,\u00a01-2, 1-109.<\/p>\n Anis, Md. & Cameron, C.A. (2024). A\u00a0Day-in-the-Life<\/i>\u00a0of Rohingya refugee children.\u00a0Monograph Matters: In T. Callaghan, et al., (2024). Fostering prosociality in refugee children: An intervention with Rohingya children.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 89(1-2).\u00a0<\/i>https:\/\/monographmatters.srcd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Day_in_the_Life_MM_89.1-2.pdf<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Project 1: A day in the life of children aged 0-3: an ecological approach 2002-2010<\/p>\n The original project involved two-and-a-half-year-old girls at home in Canada, Italy, Peru, Thailand, Turkey, the UK and the USA. The multidisciplinary, international project team studied the girls’ interactions with their environments, including members of their families. Participatory understandings were developed through watching and discussing parts of the original data with the families and subsequent detailed scrutiny of the video records and transcripts. The project team was led to pay attention to diverse activities including humour, musicality, swinging, drawing, place-making, eating, play, joint book reading and many others that demonstrated reciprocity in the development of understandings. The project contributed to studies of human culture as it is woven in the everyday.<\/p>\n Project 2: Negotiating Resilience Project 3: A day in the life of children in transition to school <\/p>\n The Day in the Digital Life of Children aged 0-3 was a research strand of the Working Group 1 Digital literacy in homes and communities<\/a> of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) programme The Digital Literacy and Multimodal Practices of Young Children<\/a>. See here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n See here<\/a> for more information on Um Dia na Vida, the Day in the Life project in Brazil.<\/p>\n Susan Young directed MyPlace: MyMusic: an international project to explore everyday music in the home among seven-year-olds in diverse locations, including Brazil, Singapore and Kenya. The key publication from this project is Children’s Home Musical Experiences Across the World<\/a>, edited by Susan Young and Beatriz Illari, published by Indiana University Press in 2016.<\/p>\n The projects have published several books, journal articles and book chapters. We have contributed to many international conferences. You will find more details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Day in the Life methodology is now cited by numerous scholars and authors, beyond ourselves and people we know.\u00a0 We remain grateful for the interest that\u00a0 grows every year.<\/p>\n\n\t\tThe first three projects<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nUsing a range of visual methods, the second project explored the resilience of adolescents in diverse locations around the globe as well.\u00a0 Teenagers in four locations in Canada partnered with in four locations abroad (China, Thailand, India and South Africa) are being studied to determine the themes emerging from observing the days in their lives that indicate the roots of their thriving.\u00a0 This team\u2019s research can be accessed through the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia. Themes of the contributions to thriving of traditional culture, identities, security strivings, and humour emerged in this work.<\/p>\n
\nThe third initiative, in Canada, studied a \u2018day in the life\u2019 of children in transition to school, and in particular, transitions of children from cultures different from the culture of the larger community in which the school is located.\u00a0 This project engaged scholars and early years educators in six cultural contexts chosen for their initiatives in fostering vibrant transitional experiences in transitions to school.<\/p>\nThe original methodology and projects continue to spawn many projects, papers, events and more.\u00a0 You can find some further details on this site.<\/h3>\n