HISTORICAL TRUTH AND NARRATIVE TRUTH FOR CHILDREN - A RESEARCH STRATEGY

This work describes a strategy for studying the role of affects in the tranSformation of a lived-event into a narrated event by young childr en. The child participates actively in an event (the scenario), the se parate episodes of which evoke different affects. Immediately after th is experience, and again two weeks later, die child is asked to tell h is mother what happened. There are two experimental conditions: one ha lf of the mother do not watch the scenario and do not know what happen ed, the other half watched die scenario from behind a mirror. In this condition the narration is a co-construction. We will present here the scenario and our design and method of research.