A hierarchical model of children’s research participation rights based on information, understanding, voice, and influence.

Mayne, F., Howitt, C., & Rennie, L. J. (2018). A hierarchical model of children’s research participation rights based on information, understanding, voice, and influence. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 26(5), pp. 644-656. This paper introduces a hierarchical model of children’s (3- to 8-year olds) research participation rights that builds on work by Roger Hart […]

Ethical issues in child research: Caution of ethical drift.

Enochsson, A.-B., & Löfdahl Hultman, A. (2019). Ethical issues in child research: Caution of ethical drift. In V. Margrain & A. Löfdahl Hultman (Eds.), Challenging Democracy in Early Childhood Education: Engagement in Changing Global Contexts (pp. 27-39). Singapore: Springer Singapore. Abstract: The background for this study is the emphasis on ethical considerations in child research […]

Using critically reflexive ethics in practice to address issues of representation in children’s rights-based research.

Gaches, S. (2020). Using critically reflexive ethics in practice to address issues of representation in children’s rights-based research. Global Studies of Childhood, 12(4), pp.374-386. This article reflects on the process of trying to put children’s rights into practice in research in early childhood. It documents the researcher’s extensive efforts to engage with critically reflexive ethics […]

Embedding young children’s participation rights into research: How the interactive narrative approach enhances meaningful participation.

Mayne, F., & Howitt, C. (2019). Embedding young children’s participation rights into research: How the interactive narrative approach enhances meaningful participation. International Journal of Early Childhood, 51(3), pp. 335-353.  This research explored how young children’s research participation can be enhanced when an interactive narrative approach is embedded within research to enhance children’s consent to participation […]

Children’s competence and wellbeing in sensitive research: When video-stimulated accounts lead to dispute.

Theobald, M., & Danby, S. J. (2019). Children’s competence and wellbeing in sensitive research: When video-stimulated accounts lead to dispute. In J. Lamerichs, S. J. Danby, A. Bateman, & S. Ekberg (Eds.), Children and Mental Health Talk: Perspectives on Social Competence (pp. 137-166). Cham: Springer International Publishing. ISBN: 978-3-030-28426-8. Chapter Abstract: Children’s perspectives in research […]

Entering the field as researchers and leaving as “aunties”: Field relations with young children and their families in a refugee reception centre.

Scott, P. (2019). Entering the field as researchers and leaving as “aunties”: Field relations with young children and their families in a refugee reception centre. In A. Wihstutz (Ed.), Zwischen Sandkasten und Abschiebung: Zum Alltag junger Kinder in Unterkünften für Geflüchtete (pp. 197-222). Berlin: Verlag Barbara Budrich. ISBN: 978-3-8474-1250-2. This is an open access book. […]

Ethical considerations in participatory research with young children.

Truscott, J., Graham, A., & Powell, M. A. (2019). Ethical considerations in participatory research with young children. In A. Eckhoff (Ed.), Participatory Research with Young Children. Educating the Young Child (Advances in Theory and Research, Implications for Practice) (Vol. 17). Cham: Springer. Abstract: The expansion of participatory research with young children has given rise to […]

Ethics and Research with Young Children: New Perspectives.

Schulte, C. M. (Ed.) (2020). Ethics and Research with Young Children: New Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN: 978-1-3500-7647-1 Publisher’s Description: As researchers and theorists, teachers and teacher educators, parents and grandparents and advocates for children, the authors featured in Ethics and Research with Young Children share a common inclination to counter the idea of an ethics […]