Product Description

Research with Children is a new resource book on the methodology of childhood research. Leading and new researchers within the social studies of childhood discuss epistemology and methodology, showing the links between theory and practice.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58046 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

From the Back Cover

This second, fully updated edition of Research with Children brings together both leading and new researchers within the social studies of childhood to explore some central questions arising in empirical research with children. Demonstrating the links between theory and practice, the authors illustrate questions of methodology and epistemology by drawing on research with children in different social and cultural contexts.

Covering a wide range of subjects, such as ethics and reflexivity in research with children, quantitative and qualitative approaches and children as researchers, it stresses the importance of adopting both comparative and intergenerational perspectives to account for the commonality and diversity of childhood, children’s empowerment, and children as subjects and participants in the research process.

The new edition of this respected text has been fully updated and includes new chapters on topics in the area including:

Research with children living in war-affected areas

Research with children living on the streets

Gendered aspects of the research process

Evidence reviews

The theoretical perspectives and practical questions are clear and well-argued, appealing both to the newcomer to childhood studies and to experienced researchers in the field.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ethics in research with children

About the Author

Pia Christensen is Professor of Anthropology and Childhood Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is Director of Childhood Studies and, as a leading ethnographer in the field, she has published widely.

Allison James is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at the University of Sheffield, UK. As a pioneer of the new social sudies of childhood, she has researched extensively in children’s culture.