As they grow, children get little by little independent. The MOBIKIDS1 research aims to studyhow children's mobility and spatial experiences evolve during the transition from elementaryschool to secondary school.The first objective was to understand the social, psychological and spatial conditions for theevolution of urban practices by describing forms of urban educational culture (UEC) and therole of routines and informality in these practices.A part of the methodology was based on the "Commented city walk2" developed byJP.Thibaud and revised here with children. Thus, with children who consented, it consisted incollecting children’s voices and photos (video-recording in the second year) taken by themduring the commented walk made in a familiar context (school-home journey). Moreprecisely,this was to make the return journey from school and to ask the kid to describehis/her perceptions, sensations & other observations during the travel. This walk &comments were recorded in situ, then transcribed to help with the various forms of analysisafterwards.But, as a matter of principle, these transcriptions only preserve what is in the order ofspeech in the expression of the children during their journey. But this expression is muchricher and more subtle than the simple words they use. It is expressed through the voice, itsintonations, its rhythms, its hesitations or silences sometimes, it is expressed through therelationships that we hear between the child walking and the sounds of the environment, orwith 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 fewexamples 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 audioDurant 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.
