Parents’ perspectives on the role of kin in child-rearing:a qualitative study on Greenland’s universal parenting programme MANU
Nurturing care and protection from parents and community in the early years of life are fundamental for a child’s development. The article aims to explore what relations parents see as meaningful in their child’s upbringing and how these are shaped, and how these perspectives are reflected in MANU....
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ftsydanskunivpub:oai:sdu.dk:publications/36765a16-72e9-4b69-87d9-16b01f53e9cc 2024-05-19T07:36:24+00:00 Parents’ perspectives on the role of kin in child-rearing:a qualitative study on Greenland’s universal parenting programme MANU Ingemann, Christine Olesen, Ingelise Jensen, Else Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Tine Larsen, Christina Viskum Lytken Kvernmo, Siv 2023-06 application/pdf https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/36765a16-72e9-4b69-87d9-16b01f53e9cc https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2225720 https://findresearcher.sdu.dk/ws/files/239065591/Parents_perspectives_on_the_role_of_kin_in_child_rearing_a_qualitative_study_on_Greenland_s_universal_parenting_programme_MANU.pdf eng eng https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/36765a16-72e9-4b69-87d9-16b01f53e9cc info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Ingemann , C , Olesen , I , Jensen , E , Tjørnhøj-Thomsen , T , Larsen , C V L & Kvernmo , S 2023 , ' Parents’ perspectives on the role of kin in child-rearing : a qualitative study on Greenland’s universal parenting programme MANU ' , International Journal of Circumpolar Health , vol. 82 , no. 1 , 2225720 . https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2225720 Arctic Child-rearing Circumpolar Indigenous Kinship Parenting programme Qualitative methods article 2023 ftsydanskunivpub https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2225720 2024-05-01T00:39:37Z Nurturing care and protection from parents and community in the early years of life are fundamental for a child’s development. The article aims to explore what relations parents see as meaningful in their child’s upbringing and how these are shaped, and how these perspectives are reflected in MANU. MANU is a universal parenting programme in Greenland. Ten of 40 interviews with parents were selected for the analysis of this article’s objective. Five grandparents were interviewed. Grandparents are the child’s closest extended family members and provide support to parents. Parents placed between one to 19 extended family members in their child’s network. Eating and being in nature together, along with familial and intergenerational connectedness, were deemed valuable and important aspects in child-rearing. Parents’ own experiences in childhood can influence and complicate how parents place their new family within the extended family. The MANU materials address aspects in the role of kin that parents and grandparents described in interviews. The format and delivery of MANU aims to be universal and mostly addresses Western epistemologies, but both Western and Inuit epistemologies coexists in Greenland. This article creates a window into the existing context parents navigate in. It is important that initiatives are built within this context to ensure they are relevant to families. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Circumpolar Health Greenland International Journal of Circumpolar Health inuit University of Southern Denmark Research Portal International Journal of Circumpolar Health 82 1 |
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Nurturing care and protection from parents and community in the early years of life are fundamental for a child’s development. The article aims to explore what relations parents see as meaningful in their child’s upbringing and how these are shaped, and how these perspectives are reflected in MANU. MANU is a universal parenting programme in Greenland. Ten of 40 interviews with parents were selected for the analysis of this article’s objective. Five grandparents were interviewed. Grandparents are the child’s closest extended family members and provide support to parents. Parents placed between one to 19 extended family members in their child’s network. Eating and being in nature together, along with familial and intergenerational connectedness, were deemed valuable and important aspects in child-rearing. Parents’ own experiences in childhood can influence and complicate how parents place their new family within the extended family. The MANU materials address aspects in the role of kin that parents and grandparents described in interviews. The format and delivery of MANU aims to be universal and mostly addresses Western epistemologies, but both Western and Inuit epistemologies coexists in Greenland. This article creates a window into the existing context parents navigate in. It is important that initiatives are built within this context to ensure they are relevant to families. |
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Ingemann, Christine Olesen, Ingelise Jensen, Else Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Tine Larsen, Christina Viskum Lytken Kvernmo, Siv |
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Parents’ perspectives on the role of kin in child-rearing:a qualitative study on Greenland’s universal parenting programme MANU |
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Parents’ perspectives on the role of kin in child-rearing:a qualitative study on Greenland’s universal parenting programme MANU |
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Parents’ perspectives on the role of kin in child-rearing:a qualitative study on Greenland’s universal parenting programme MANU |
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Ingemann , C , Olesen , I , Jensen , E , Tjørnhøj-Thomsen , T , Larsen , C V L & Kvernmo , S 2023 , ' Parents’ perspectives on the role of kin in child-rearing : a qualitative study on Greenland’s universal parenting programme MANU ' , International Journal of Circumpolar Health , vol. 82 , no. 1 , 2225720 . https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2225720 |
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