ABSTRACT

This article investigates children’s everyday manifestations of grief and grieving situations. Medical and psychological approaches to grief and grieving usually focus on the death of loved ones. It is argued that everyday grief and grieving in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is present in social situations where loneliness and withdrawal are experienced by children. A cultural–historical approach was used to examine everyday grief and grieving in the preschool setting. Video observations were made of Mayra, a 5-year-old girl living in a rural Mexican community. The findings show that grief and grieving are affected by children’s social situations, the material conditions of the location and the adult’s role in compassionate approach in alleviating grief. Implications from this study highlight the need to examine everyday situations where children experience loneliness and withdrawal when relating to peers as a part of children’s larger frame of grief.

摘要

这篇文章调查了儿童在悲伤和悲伤情境中的日常表现。悲伤和悲伤的医学和心理学方法通常集中在亲人的死亡上。有人认为，幼儿教育和护理（ECEC）中的日常悲伤和悲伤存在于儿童经历孤独和退缩的社会情境中。一种文化历史的方法被用来检查幼儿园环境中的日常悲伤和悲伤。对生活在墨西哥农村社区的 5 岁女孩 Mayra 进行了视频观察。研究结果表明，悲伤和悲伤受儿童的社会环境、地点的物质条件以及成人在减轻悲伤的同情方法中的作用的影响。