Happy Families?: Scottish Presbyterian Missionary Children’s Homes, 1900s–1950s

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This article focuses on two residential institutions in Edinburgh – Home House and Cunningham House – established in the first half of the twentieth century by various branches of Scottish Presbyterianism, to cater for the children of their missionaries operating overseas. These homes served to mitigate the common Protestant practice of family separation, whereby children often returned to countries of origin for all or some of their education. These Scottish homes replicated other Protestant institutions for missionary children. At the same time, they were smaller and more intimate in scale, and Presbyterians played on this to accentuate the homes' role in providing a substitute family for the residents. It argues that the Edinburgh homes can be understood from two equally important vantage points, drawing on insights from the history of emotions and the history of childhood. On the one hand, adult narratives played up notions of happiness and domestic stability for the children. On the other hand, children's narratives indicate considerable emotional ambiguity and navigation. As such, Cunningham House and Home House acted as important sites of emotional management perceived and experienced variously by children and adults.
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幸福的家庭吗?:苏格兰长老会传教士儿童之家,1900 - 1950年
这篇文章的重点是爱丁堡的两所寄宿机构——Home House和Cunningham House,这两所寄宿机构是由苏格兰长老会的各个分支在20世纪上半叶建立的,为他们在海外传教的孩子提供服务。这些家庭有助于减轻新教徒家庭分离的普遍做法,即儿童经常返回原籍国接受全部或部分教育。这些苏格兰家庭复制了其他新教为传教士儿童设立的机构。同时,它们在规模上更小,更亲密,长老会利用这一点来强调住宅的作用,为居民提供替代家庭。它认为,爱丁堡的家庭可以从两个同样重要的有利位置来理解,从情感的历史和童年的历史中汲取洞察力。一方面,成人的叙事为孩子们渲染了幸福和家庭稳定的概念。另一方面,儿童的叙述显示出相当大的情感模糊性和导向性。因此,坎宁安之家和家庭之家是儿童和成人感知和体验不同情绪管理的重要场所。
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