KINDheitenERLEBEN

Project participantsProf. Dr. Friederike Heinzel (L), Prof. Dr. Alexandra Retkowski (L), Prof. Dr. Simone Kreher (L) (HS Fulda), Julian Storck-Odabaşı, Torsten Eckermann, Verena Pohl, Kristin Löwenberger, Lara Charlet
Duration                    completed
Funded byCentral Research Funding (ZFF) University of Kassel
Project descriptionKINDheitenERLEBENis a regional comparative study conducted in cooperation with Fulda University of Applied Sciences in the cities of Kassel and Fulda. The focus of the study is on subjective well-being and objective living conditions from the perspective of children, with a particular focus on residential areas. This involves researching children's appropriation processes and interpretations of the neighborhood, children's networks, as well as children's future prospects and their ideas of a "good" life for children. The children's perspective, which has been largely neglected to date, is systematically included here, as children's participation is essential for sustainable urban development.
OtherCooperation partner: Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Nursing and Health
Publications

Eckermann, T. (2017): Catching childhood constructors red-handed? A childhood sociological self-experiment. In: Fangmeyer, A./Mierendorff, J. (eds.), Kindheit und Erwachsenheit in sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung und Theoriebildung. Weinheim and Basel: Beltz Juventa, pp. 55-72.

Eckermann, T./Heinzel, F./Kreher, S. (2016): The image of the child as an object of childhood and primary school research - Methodological considerations on images of childhood and their observers. In: Journal for Primary School Research, 2, pp. 88-101.

Heinzel, F. (2018): Interviews with (young) children. Experiences from the KINDheitenERLEBEN project. In: Gasteiger, H./Bruns, J. (eds.): Methods of empirical educational research in the context of early childhood education and development. Conference proceedings of the summer school of the same name in Osnabrück 2017. Available online at: repositorium.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/bitstream/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-2018052917199/5/Hochschulschrift_2018_Gasteiger.pdf, as at: 09.08.2018

Kreher, S./Möller, D. (2016): Mixed data plots - working between old school and 'anything goes'? In: Hitzler, R./Kreher, S./Poferl, A./Schröer, N. (eds.): Old School - New School? On the question of optimizing ethnographic data generation. Essen: Oldib, pp. 367-381.

Kreher, S./Rothe, N./Storck-Odabasi, J./Heinzel, F. (2019): Mixed-data plots in childhood research. Methodological innovation or aberration in participatory research with children and adults? In: Hartnack, F. (ed.): Qualitative research with children; challenges, methods and concepts. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 313-344.

Storck-Odabasi, J./Heinzel, F./Kreher, S./Rothe, N. (2019): How can childhoods be experienced? Research methodological and methodological considerations using the example of the topics of well-being and space-making in the KINDheitenERLEBENproject. In: Discourse on Childhood and Youth Research, 14(4), pp. 460-473.

Zahren, J. (2015): Going into the field with children? In: Poferl, A./Reichertz, J. (eds.): Paths into the field; methodological aspects of field access. Essen: Oldib, pp. 313-344.