Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Child-rearing at a Residential Child Care Institution
- 2 Japanese Contexts and Concepts
- 3 The Research Program
- 4 A Developmental Goal for Maltreated Children
- 5 Challenges to Maltreated Children’s Ibasho Creation
- 6 Socialization Practices Underlying Ibasho Creation
- 7 Children’s Lives and Experiences of Ibasho and Mimamori
- 8 Mr. Watanabe’s Responses to the Intervention
- 9 Reflections on Some Challenges of Field Research
- 10 The Emerging Child Welfare Context of Jidou Yougo Shisetsu
- 11 Conclusion: Some Lessons for Culturally Sensitive Child Welfare
- References
- Index
9 - Reflections on Some Challenges of Field Research
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Child-rearing at a Residential Child Care Institution
- 2 Japanese Contexts and Concepts
- 3 The Research Program
- 4 A Developmental Goal for Maltreated Children
- 5 Challenges to Maltreated Children’s Ibasho Creation
- 6 Socialization Practices Underlying Ibasho Creation
- 7 Children’s Lives and Experiences of Ibasho and Mimamori
- 8 Mr. Watanabe’s Responses to the Intervention
- 9 Reflections on Some Challenges of Field Research
- 10 The Emerging Child Welfare Context of Jidou Yougo Shisetsu
- 11 Conclusion: Some Lessons for Culturally Sensitive Child Welfare
- References
- Index
Summary
At the time of this writing, Sachiko is an associate professor at Tokyo Gakugei University. This chapter presents her reflections on her experiences at the Children’s Academy for the benefit, especially, of students and those new to qualitative research. Sachiko’s struggles to find her Ibasho at the Children’s Academy highlight the challenges of defining one’s role as a researcher in ethnographic research. In addition, her reflections capture the flavor of the social and psychological climate at the Children’s Academy. They also provide another, first-person, account of the experience of Ibasho creation from a Japanese perspective.
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- Child Welfare and DevelopmentA Japanese Case Study, pp. 154 - 169Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011