‘Age-Appropriate Development’ as Measure and Norm
‘Age-Appropriate Development’ as Measure and Norm
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10.1177/0907568209351548
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2010-02
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Helga Kelle
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Helga Kelle
本文对德国从出生到5岁(U1到U9)的儿童进行常规儿科检查的逻辑进行了人种学研究。这些体检旨在对儿童的发展过程和进步进行持续评估，其结果为儿童在教育机构的职业生涯决策提供依据。本文着重探讨了“适龄发展”这一概念在研究领域的应用，探讨了其在体检实践人类学语境中的意义，并从理论上对“正常发展”的建构进行了思考。在对一个U9(有一个5岁的孩子)的例子的分析中，展示了如何在检查过程中产生儿童发展状态的极其浓缩的图景，以及如何为干预儿童的发展过程而合法化。
The article provides an ethnographic study of the logic of conducting routine paediatric checkups in children from birth to the age of 5 in Germany (U1 to U9). These checkups are meant as a continual evaluation of a child’s developmental process and progress, and their outcomes inform decisions on children’s careers in educational institutions. The article focuses on the concept of ‘age-appropriate development’ as applied in the field of study, discusses its meaning in the context of the checkups’ practical anthropology and theoretically reflects on the construction of ‘normal development’. In the analysis of an example of a U9 (with a 5-year-old child) it is shown how an extremely condensed picture of a child’s developmental state and how legitimization for intervening in children’s developmental processes are produced in the course of the checkups.