Research with Children

Perspectives and Practices

Pia Christensen, Allison James, Pia Christensen, Allison James

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781317327769
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

The entirely revised third edition of Research with Children forms a unique resource book on the methodology of childhood research with a core emphasis on theory driven practices. As in the previous two editions, this edition presents particular standpoints in the field, whilst also reflecting the latest developments in the now well-established interdisciplinary field of childhood studies.

A rich collection of contributions from leading researchers across a range of disciplinary backgrounds, research practices and theoretical perspectives discuss central questions of epistemology and methodology, demonstrating the links between theory and practice. This edition includes exciting new chapters on:

• Internet-based research and contemporary technology,
• Family based research,
• Children as researchers,
• Participatory research in the global context,
• New directions for childhood research.

Both theoretical and practical questions are set out in a well-argued fashion that enables easier navigation through the various complexities of the epistemological and methodological questions arising in contemporary research practices with children. As such, this text will appeal to both the newcomer to childhood studies and to experienced researchers in the field. With fully updated chapters, new material and a revised, clearer structure, this new edition will be a valuable resource for researchers working with children.

Index

Italic page numbers indicate tables; bold page numbers indicate figures.

1. absence 208
2. academic childhood researchers, in policy domains 7
3. acceptance of researchers 14–18
4. Acharya, L. 171
5. action-oriented participatory research 3
6. action research 5
7. activism, children 218
8. Actor Network Theory (ANT) 207
9. actual reality 207
10. adult caretakers, as spokespeople for children 4
11. adult-centrism 73
12. adult competences, children’s representations of 112–14, 115–16
13. advocacy 144–5
14. affordances, offline/online spaces 58–9
15. Agar, M.H. 131
16. age: and child–adult relationships 87–8; and research participation 4
17. agency 206–7
18. Alderson, P. 89, 143, 147–8, 149, 153, 172, 175, 215
19. Angela’s Ashes(McCourt) 31–2
20. Annales School 47
21. applied research 5
22. Ariès, P. 34
23. assertive power, of childhood 42
24. Aswini 63
25. audiences, for children’s research 172–4
26. austerity policies, effects of 211
27. authenticity: of children’s voices 114–15, 117–18; digital media 65
28. authority, challenging 112–14

1. Barad, K. 73
2. Barnardo’s 143–6; ethics 147; social attitudes survey 151–3
3. Barry, E. 169
4. Beazley, H. 180
5. Becker, H. 28
6. bedroom tax 216
7. behaviour, contextualising 115
8. Bell, S. 82
9. Bellew, Julian 149
10. Belonging(Baker) 75
11. Berger, J. 74
12. Bhaskar, R. 207, 208, 209, 210, 214
13. Bloch, M. 34, 47
14. Blum-Ross, A. 63–4
15. Bobby 132–4
16. body mapping 186–7
17. book: approach taken 1–3, 5; background 1; focus 2–3; methodological perspectives 3–6
18. boundaries: child–adult relationships 112–14; crossing 47; leisure activities 55–6
19. Bourdieu, P. 105, 124, 1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• Introduction: Researching children and childhood: cultures of communication
• Entering and observing in children’s worlds: A reflection on a longitudinal ethnography of early education in Italy
• Macro-analysis of childhood
• Researching children and childhood in the digital age
• Using visual and digital research methods with young children
• Researching children’s complex family lives and respecting inter-generational relationships
• Race, gender and critical reflexivity in research with young children
• Disabled children, ethnography and unspoken understandings: The collaborative construction of diverse identities
• Listening to children: And hearing them
• Turning the tables: Children as researchers
• Participatory research on kinship care in East Africa
• Utopian research with children
• Index