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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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/29928 2023-09-05T13:18:52+02:00 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 2023-06-21 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29928 https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2225720 eng eng Taylor & Francis International Journal of Circumpolar Health Ingemann, Olesen, Jensen, Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Larsen, Kvernmo. 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. 2023;82(1) FRIDAID 2161921 doi:10.1080/22423982.2023.2225720 1239-9736 2242-3982 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/29928 Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2023 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2023.2225720 2023-08-16T23:06:47Z 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 Circumpolar Health Greenland International Journal of Circumpolar Health inuit University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Greenland 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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Ingemann, Christine Olesen, Ingelise Jensen, Else Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Tine Larsen, Christina Viskum Lytken Kvernmo, Siv 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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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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