Keywords: Absolutely Intercultural, Ewan McIntosh, Michael Coghlan, Reboot, Women's Day
August 01, 2007
Despite being away on holiday I managed to publish the latest podcast last Friday on the theme of raising children. The reason I chose the theme was because it strikes me that this is an area where people have strongly held beliefs mostly delineated by culture. Thus the first feature is about Collette Döppner, a Kenyan woman living in Germany, who describes the enormous pressure she and her husband were placed under when they elected to have their new baby sleep in their own bed as practised in Kenyan culture. I then talked to Michael Coghlan and his daughter Alison Waye, in Australia to find out if the Australians really were shocked when the Crown Prince of Denmark and his Tasmanian wife sent their 15 month old son to a day nursery or whether this was just a tabloid story designed to boost the circulation of the Australian magazine, Women's Day. To end there is another extract from the conversation I had with Ewan McIntosh back in May at the Reboot conference when we talked about what 4 and 5 year olds get up to in Scotland and Denmark. Is it school or is it play? Is it the same or is it different?
Posted by Anne Fox
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