Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Nafiseh Asadi Pak ¹
• Susan Habib ²
• Amin Izadpanah ³

¹ Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Professor Hessabi (Tafresh), Tafresh, Iran.

² Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Professor Hessabi (Tafresh), Islamic Azad University, Tafresh, Iran

³ Department of Foundations of Education, School of Education and Psychology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

Abstract

Ahmadreza Ahmadi’s stories for children and young adults are largely shaped around themes of everyday life and children’s interactions with their surroundings, in connection with the characters’ emotional and social experiences. In these works, home is represented not merely as a physical space, but in relation to lived territories, social and cultural relations, perception and imagination, and nature. This study aims to analyze the representation of home and explain how homemaking is formed in Ahmadreza Ahmadi’s stories for children and young adults published between 1969 and 2022. The study adopts a qualitative approach using thematic analysis. Data were collected through an in-depth and systematic study of 57 children’s and young adult storybooks by Ahmadreza Ahmadi. The data were analyzed through a process of initial coding, organizing and examining relationships among codes, and developing and reviewing the final themes. The findings were organized into four final themes: continuity and expansion of lived territories; home as a socially and culturally lived world; perceptual and imaginative expansion of lived space; and the interweaving of lived space and nature. Accordingly, home in Ahmadreza Ahmadi’s works extends beyond its physical boundaries and becomes a dynamic, multilayered space. In this sense, homemaking is understood as a quality of experiencing and inhabiting space that emerges through the characters’ relationship with place and their surrounding environment. The findings show that home in Ahmadreza Ahmadi’s works is represented beyond an architectural place and gains meaning in relation to the characters’ lived space and experience of homemaking.

Keywords

• Ahmadreza Ahmadi
• representation of home
• homemaking
• children’s and young adult literature
• lived space

Main Subjects

• children's Literature Studies