Ethical Research Involving Children

Relational ethics-in-action: Learning from naturalistic video observations of infants, toddlers, and their teachers.

Jia, A.C., Cooper, M., & Gould, K. (2023). Relational ethics-in-action: Learning from naturalistic video observations of infants, toddlers, and their teachers. The First Years, Ngā Tau Tuatara: New Zealand Journal of Infant and Toddler Education, 25(1), pp.32-36.

Abstract: In the context of researching the real lives of infants, toddlers, and their teachers in early childhood education, the role of ethics goes beyond being an institutional requirement to being the key to ensuring integrity of the research, the researcher, and respect and care for the research participants. Written from the perspective of the lead author, this article explores some of the relational ethics-in-action that were identified when she was filming infants, toddlers, and their teachers, as part of a University of Auckland research project on the implementation of Te Whāriki (Ministry of Education, 2017). Exploring these ethics-in-action highlights the possibilities and complexities of natural- istic video observations with very young children in early childhood settings.

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