Ethical research with children: Untold narratives and taboos.
Richards, S., Clark, J., & Boggis, A. (2015). Ethical research with children: Untold narratives and taboos. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. e-book ISBN: 978-1-137-35131-9.
Publisher’s Description: An increasing interest in children’s lives has tested the ethical and practical limits of research. Rather than making tricky ethical decisions transparent, researchers tend to gloss over stories that do not fit with sanitized narratives. This book aims to fill this gap by making explicit the lived experiences of research with children.
Chapter Titles:
1. Boundaries and battlegrounds: Negotiating formal ethical approval for research with children and young people
2. Ethical spaces and places
3. The rights of participation and the realities of inclusion
4. The illusion of autonomy: From agency to interdependency
5. Ramifications of category entitlement: In what ways does who we are determine what others will say?
6. Privileging voices
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eric
November 10, 2016The authors describe in the introduction that “this book is a collection of stories that don’t often get told: the messiness, the ambiguities and the parts of our research that lay on the cutting room floor” (p.2). Indeed, the authors explore and problematise the sanitised versions of research that get published and the participatory approaches that are increasingly being considered ‘best practice’ in research involving children. In doing so they continue to push the boundaries of thinking and discourse around ethical research involving children. A number of the chapters are freely available to read by searching on-line.
eric
February 8, 2017A book review of this title has recently been published in the journal, Children’s Geographies (see: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2017.1282685). This review offers a comprehensive overview of the various chapters.