A1 Journal article (refereed)
Barnkulturforskning som tvärvetenskapligt forskningsområde (2015)

von Bonsdorff, P. (2015). Barnkulturforskning som tvärvetenskapligt forskningsområde. Barn, 2015(3-4), 125-136. https://doi.org/10.5324/barn.v33i3.3465

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Publication details

All authors or editors: von Bonsdorff, Pauline

Journal or series: Barn

ISSN: 0800-1669

eISSN: 2535-5449

Publication year: 2015

Volume: 2015

Issue number: 3-4

Pages range: 125-136

Publisher: Norsk senter for barneforskning

Publication country: Norway

Publication language: Swedish

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5324/barn.v33i3.3465

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Open Access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/98428

Abstract

The article discusses multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity with a focus on child culture research. Multidisciplinarity is today a popular catchword, as it is assumed that new knowledge and new questions are born in the border areas between disciplines. A historical perspective however shows that research is constantly changing. In addition to methods, theories and research objects disciplines are held together by their traditions and constitute interpretive communities with internalised principles. Childhood studies is discussed as a multidisciplinary field of research with a central transdisciplinary element: the idea that children are social and cultural agents. The transdisciplinary is described as an ”ethical pulse” that can cross the borders between research, culture, and society. Next the value of interdisciplinary research processes and the impact of interpretive communities on concepts is discussed. Interdisciplinarity can increase reflectivity but it requires some degree of scientific realism. Finally child culture research is discussed as a multidisciplinary field, and it is suggested that the idea of the aesthetic as key to children’s life and children as key to the aesthetic might constitute its transdisciplinary element.

Keywords: children (age groups); children's culture; child research; cultural research; multidisciplinary research; interdisciplinary research; interdisciplinary research

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Ministry reporting: Yes

VIRTA submission year: 2015

JUFO rating: 1