The reflection of child laborers' lived experiences in their autobiographical works in Aroosak-e-Sokhangoo magazine

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 M.A in Child and Adolescent Literature, Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Faculty member of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

10.22099/jcls.2023.46384.1966

Abstract

Children in various social settings and through their interactions and relationships with others, undergo a series of experiences known as lived experiences. These experiences, which contribute to the development of children's mindsets, judgment, and behavior, cause to reflect in children's writings when they want to write their own writings. As Aroosak-e-Sokhangoo magazine allows children to create literary works as writers for themselves, this study analyzes the content relationship between what child laborers wrote there and their lived experiences. To this end, the present study examines three autobiographical works of child laborers in this magazine based on John Dewey's theory on the relationship between people's lived experiences and the works they create. The child laborers as writers were then provided with different questionnaires in the form of written interviews to determine whether these writings reflected their lived experiences or not. Even though some children avoided revealing or denied the truth while answering the questions, the research findings suggest that the content of this category of autobiographical works, depending on child laborers' conditions in society and family settings, openly or covertly reflects and emerges from their lived experiences and sometimes they are from their hidden traumas and complexes.

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  • Receive Date: 18 December 2022
  • Revise Date: 02 May 2023
  • Accept Date: 15 May 2023

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