Projects in the field of socialization and adolescence research

 In a cultural comparative approach to socialization, we examine how adolescents experience the coronavirus crisis and how they deal with it. This is a cooperation project between the Universities of Hanover (Boris Zizek) and Bielefeld (Ullrich Bauer). It is supported in the survey and, in the long term, in the evaluation by international colleagues. In the meantime, we have collected and evaluated interviews with adolescents from the following countries: Vietnam, South Korea, China, Indonesia, Brazil, Austria, Belgium, Germany.

This project is being carried out as a collaboration between Leibniz University Hannover (Boris Zizek) and Bielefeld University (Ullrich Bauer), with the help of international colleagues.

So far, we have collected and evaluated interviews from the following countries: Vietnam, South Korea, China, Indonesia, Brazil, Austria, Belgium, and Germany.

Link to the project:

www.researchgate.net/project/Adolescence-in-times-of-a-pandemic-An-international-comparative-qualitative-study

Interview about the project:

SPIEGEL Wissen 2/2020, p. 14.

Participants:

Leibniz University Hannover

Prof. Dr. Boris Zizek

Soon-won Jung

Hendrik-Zoltán Andermann

Yao Pei

Marten Corrigan

Kristin Kollmann

Bielefeld University

Prof. Dr. Ullrich Bauer

Baris Ertugrul

Dr. Marc Grimm

Dr. Paulo Pinheiro MD

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Anna Katharina Kirchner

Research collaboration with the University of Twente: “Will the world never be the same? Letters from a post-corona future.” The corona crisis has changed the lives of people worldwide. Daily routines and habits have been disrupted or significantly restricted. This makes it clear that our everyday lives and habits are not rigid, but can be changed. This in turn raises the question of how we want to live – after corona.

Do we want to go back to the past and live as we did before corona, or do we want a new, different way of life for the future? If we had the opportunity to shape a new future, how would we shape it?

To answer this question, young people aged 16 and over were asked to write letters from the future to their present selves.

Link to the project:

https://www.utwente.nl/en/bms/ehealth/research/story-lab/post-corona-letters/

Together with Prof. Lalenia Zizek (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences), we are investigating the current forms and trends in the relationship and socialization practices of young South Korean families.

We are initially building on our research and data on adolescence in South Korea. In October 2019, we will conduct our first major survey in South Korea using narrative interview methods. The interviews will be evaluated using the rebconstructive methods of objective hermeneutics.

The aim is to reconstruct trends in cohabitation and growing up in a country with accelerated or “compressed” (Chang 2018) development. How is the world of life and experience changing for adolescents?

Prof. Dr. Boris Zizek (Hanover), Prof. Dr. Claudia Scheid (PHBern)

Children can express and process experiences through painting. The two-dimensional space allows them to explore experienced constellations and their transformation without consequences. Children who paint can react to what they have created, thereby processing experiences, educating themselves, advancing their learning, and preparing for creative action. Children's drawings can therefore be read as a record of educational processes.

The research project focuses on reconstructing the expressions children convey in their drawings and the solutions to conflicts they find through painting. Essential to this approach is the methodological postulate of immanent analysis, in that the focus is not on what children say about their drawings, but on what they have done in them. The act of painting is taken seriously because it represents an independent, aesthetic form of engagement with external and internal reality. The reconstructive method of objective hermeneutics enables such a context-free analysis of records of expressive action by determining the meaning of the expressive action through contrast with the unchosen possibilities in drawing that would have been available to the actor. The decision-making process of design is recorded in the drawing, and the process of decision-making as such is one of sequentiality. However, this is presented synchronously in the image. The illumination of the concepts of image and sequentiality is part of the methodological and constitutional-theoretical claim of the project. The reconstruction does not proceed from “outside” to “inside,” in which, for example, statistical correlations are interpreted in terms of possible regularities, but rather the images as such are opened up from “inside.”

On the one hand, the project tests hypotheses on the significance of children's drawings for the educational process by expanding the existing empirical basis. This also makes the methodology of the analysis verifiable. On the other hand, it further differentiates existing methodological and constitutional theses, particularly those relating to image and education theory.

Keywords: Children's drawings, methods of childhood research, reconstructive educational research, image theory, methodology of sequence analysis procedures