Children and Worldviews: Dalvinder and Sagheer's Story
The Children and Worldviews Project explores qualitative, narrative methods to investigate the worldviews of children, that is, the way in which they make sense of their experiences and matters which are of particular importance to them.
Dalvinder and Sagheer's Story
We can do bangra dancing, it's from India. Its about the farmer working at harvest time, you wave your hands around and jump up and down squatting on your legs.
And we do reggae dancing. We mixed the reggae and bangra dancing together and changed it to make it more exciting.
We start off with the bangra music because its got like a lot of kind of Indian words in it and then we started dancing backwards and forwards with some reggae.
There's a boy in class 6 who sings along in Punjabi and Urdu. Then he changes into reggae songs. We practice and we practice and sir gives us some of the timetable to practice.
We've done some concerts, we went to the secondary school and did one. We also did one in the first school and at the nursery. There were all kinds of babies crying and when we put on the tape they all went quiet and just sat down. Then they started laughing and laughing and then when we were dancing the babies started getting up, pulling their Mums to let them go. There was this one baby, I was dancing, I did the splits and the baby came up to me and he shaked my hand and started dancing with me. And we put him into our group as well and he was doing that really well.
Its really exciting doing the dancing, it's like spreading out like, instead of curling up. It makes you easy and relaxed. Its like getting free, free, free like to do what you want and not letting other people control your life so that you can do things with your mates, for once.