In between kid's words
Résumé
As they grow, children get little by little independent. The MOBIKIDS1 research aims to study
how children's mobility and spatial experiences evolve during the transition from elementary
school to secondary school.
The first objective was to understand the social, psychological and spatial conditions for the
evolution of urban practices by describing forms of urban educational culture (UEC) and the
role of routines and informality in these practices.
A part of the methodology was based on the "Commented city walk2" developed by
JP.Thibaud and revised here with children. Thus, with children who consented, it consisted in
collecting children’s voices and photos (video-recording in the second year) taken by them
during the commented walk made in a familiar context (school-home journey). More
precisely,this was to make the return journey from school and to ask the kid to describe
his/her perceptions, sensations & other observations during the travel. This walk &
comments were recorded in situ, then transcribed to help with the various forms of analysis
afterwards.
But, as a matter of principle, these transcriptions only preserve what is in the order of
speech in the expression of the children during their journey. But this expression is much
richer and more subtle than the simple words they use. It is expressed through the voice, its
intonations, its rhythms, its hesitations or silences sometimes, it is expressed through the
relationships that we hear between the child walking and the sounds of the environment, or
with the investigator who accompanies and questions him.
It is therefore to an analysis "by ear" that I'll try to explain & to share with you, with a few
examples of how to recompose those recordings.
Mainly 7 categories have made out of them:
(- relationship to the environment)
(- interactions with the interviewer)
- melodic voice expressions
- monosyllabic expressions
- hesitations
- speech adjustments
- verbal expressions
Entre les mots des marmots - une analyse audio
Durant les enquêtes de la recherche ANR Mobikids des enfants ont participé à des "parcours commentés" in-situ, qui ont été enregistrés puis transcrits pour analyse. Suite à quoi on s'est demandé : qu'y a-t-il d'autre dans ces enregistrements, qui n'a pas pu être transcrit ? Il s'agit donc d'une analyse "à l'oreille" de ce qu'on entend entre & au-delà des mots : des tonalités d'expression.
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