Positionality and reflexivity: Recognising and dismantling our privileges in childhood research through the use of windows and mirrors.
Cuevas-Parra, P. (2023). Positionality and reflexivity: Recognising and dismantling our privileges in childhood research through the use of windows and mirrors. Global Studies of Childhood, 13(4), pp.295-309. This article explores how privileges, identities and worldviews influence every stage of childhood research processes. Drawing on their international fieldwork and using the notion of ‘windows and mirrors’, […]
Ethical tensions in designing ethnographic research with schoolchildren in rural Karnataka.
Ipe, R. (2019). Ethical tensions in designing ethnographic research with schoolchildren in rural Karnataka. Global Studies of Childhood, 9(2), pp. 120–131. This article explores the ethical tensions surrounding preparing for ethnographic research with children in a rural distract of Karnataka, India. The issues discussed and principles advocated are broadly applicable to children in variety of […]
‘It’s never okay to say no to teachers’: Children’s research consent and dissent in conforming schools contexts.
Kirby, P., (2020). ‘It’s never okay to say no to teachers’: Children’s research consent and dissent in conforming schools contexts. British Educational Research Journal, 46(4), pp. 811-828. Abstract: This article examines the limits to children giving research consent in everyday school contexts that emphasises their conformity to comply with adult expectations, and highlights children’s competence […]
The complexities and contradictions in participatory research with vulnerable children and young people: A qualitative systematic review.
Bradbury-Jones, C., Isham, L., & Taylor, J. (2018). The complexities and contradictions in participatory research with vulnerable children and young people: A qualitative systematic review. Social Science & Medicine, 215, pp. 80-91. Abstract: Participatory research carried out by or with children, has become a well-established and valuable part of the research landscape investigating children’s lives, […]
Child-Led Research: Questioning Knowledge.
Cuevas-Parra, P., & Tisdall, E. K. M. (2019). Child-Led Research: Questioning Knowledge. Social Sciences, 8(2), pp. 44-59. This open access article draws upon an empirical study of ‘child-led research’ projects, undertaken in Bangladesh, Jordan and Lebanon, for a critical examination of the meanings and implications of ‘child-led research’. In particular, this paper explores what counts […]
Ethnographic research in childhood institutions: participations and entanglements.
Dennis, B., & Huf, C. (2020). Ethnographic research in childhood institutions: participations and entanglements. Ethnography and Education, 15(4), pp. 445-461. This paper shares four interesting ethical moments at the juncture between research participation, power and knowledge production in ethnographic research with children. Please view the full abstract via the Publisher’s Link below.
Ethical issues in participatory research with children and young people.
Water, T. (2018). Ethical issues in participatory research with children and young people. In I. Coyne & B. Carter (Eds.), Being Participatory: Researching with Children and Young People: Co-constructing Knowledge Using Creative Techniques (pp. 37-56). Cham: Springer International Publishing. Abstract: Research ethics is primarily concerned with the protection of human participants: that the research will […]
Saying it like it is? Power, participation and research involving young people.
Davidson, E. (2017). Saying it like it is? Power, participation and research involving young people. Social Inclusion, 5(3). Available online. Abstract: Developments in the conceptualisation of childhood have prompted a fundamental shift in young people’s position within social research. Central to this has been the growing recognition of children’s agency within the landscapes of power […]
Specifying the ethics of teleogenetic collaboration for research with children and other vital forces: A critical inquiry into dialectical praxis psychology via posthumanist theorizing.
Chimirri, N. A. (2019). Specifying the ethics of teleogenetic collaboration for research with children and other vital forces: A critical inquiry into dialectical praxis psychology via posthumanist theorizing. Human Arenas, 2(4), pp. 451-482. Abstract: The article draws on posthumanist theorizing to critically inquire into and thereby specify the relational ethics ingrained in the dialectical praxis […]
Rights, power and agency in early childhood research design: Developing a rights-based research ethics and participation planning framework
Mayne, F., Howitt, C., & Rennie, L. (2018). Rights, power and agency in early childhood research design: Developing a rights-based research ethics and participation planning framework. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 43(3), pp.4-14