Childhood, Cooperation & Conflict: Exploring the Role of Cooperation and Conflict in Children’s Texts, Play and Peer Relations, and Implications for Social Competence and Social Cohesion

Project Year: 2021 - 2023

Funding Source: Start-up Research Grant

Project Team Member: Dr CHAN Kit Wa Anita

This study is concerned with cooperation and conflict in children’s texts, play and peer relations, with a view to better understanding how social cohesion begins to take shape during early childhood. The research will analyse cultural texts such as children’s picture books with thematic concerns about cooperation and conflict, and will also undertake visual ethnographies in early childhood settings in Hong Kong and Australia