Approcci multi-method per l’esplorazione delle pratiche di malattia infantile: riflessioni metodologiche sulla combinazione tra strumenti creativi e tecniche tradizionali

Journal title SALUTE E SOCIETÀ
Author/s Anna Rosa Favretto, Stefania Fucci, Francesca Zaltron
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/2
Language Italian Pages 10 P. 19-28 File size 418 KB
DOI 10.3280/SES2023-002003
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Children’s health and illness can be usefully investigated through the concept of “social prac-tice”, which allows to analyse both the processes by which adults and children produce re-sponses given the constraints and resources of their own life contexts, and the given-for-granted that recalls the system of meanings of the culture in which they are embedded. From a methodological point of view, tools such as vignettes adopted within the mosaic approach proved useful in analysing everyday practices through which the children experience of illness could be captured. The contribution proposes a critical reflection on the use of vignettes, emphasising how the combination with other techniques and tools allows the complexity of the children’s point of view and the skills that children concretely use to give meaning to their and others’ everyday experiences of health and illness to emerge.

Keywords: vignettes; social practices; mosaic-approach; children; health; illness.

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Anna Rosa Favretto, Stefania Fucci, Francesca Zaltron, Approcci multi-method per l’esplorazione delle pratiche di malattia infantile: riflessioni metodologiche sulla combinazione tra strumenti creativi e tecniche tradizionali in "SALUTE E SOCIETÀ" 2/2023, pp 19-28, DOI: 10.3280/SES2023-002003