Research with children : perspectives and practices / edited by Pia Christensen and Allison James. - Second edition. - xvi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Researching Children and Childhood Cultures of Communication / Subjects, Objects or Participants? Dilemmas of Psychological Research with Children / The Child as a Social Actor in Historical Sources: Problems of Identification and Interpretation / Postscript: Raising the ethical dimension in writing the history of childhood and children -- Microanalysis of Childhood / Children as Respondents: the Challenge for Quantitative Methods / Conversations with Children: Working with Generational Issues / Postscript -- The Development of Participatory Techniques: Facilitating Children's Views about Decisions Which Affect Them / Childhood Diversity and Commonality: Some Methodological Insights / Race, Gender and Critical Reflexivity in Research with Young Children / Research with Children in War-Affected Areas / Critical Omissions: How Street Children Studies Can Address Self-Destructive Agency / Disabled Children, Ethnography and Unspoken Understandings: the Collaborative Construction of Diverse Identities / Entering and Observing in Children's Worlds: a Reflection on a Longitudinal Ethnography of Early Education in Italy / Listening to Children: and Hearing Them / Children as Researchers: Participation Rights and Research Methods / Pia Christensen and Allison James -- Martin Woodhead and Dorothy Faulkner -- Harry Hendrick -- Jens Qvortrup -- Jacqueline Scott -- Berry Mayall -- Claire O'Kane -- Pia Christensen and Allison James -- Paul Connolly -- Mathijs Euwema, Donatien De Graaff, Ans De Jager and Brechtje Kalksma-Van Lith -- Roy Gigengack -- John Davis, Nick Watson and Sarah Cunningham-Burley -- William A. Corsaro and Luisa Molinari -- Helen Roberts -- Priscilla Alderson. Introduction. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

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Children--Research--Methodology
Child development--Research
Adolescent psychology--Research

HQ767.85 / .R48 2008

305.23072