Representing youth : methodological issues in critical youth studies /
edited by Amy L. Best.
- ix, 342 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Across a great gulf? : conducting research with adolescents / Rebecca Raby -- Label jars not people : how (not) to study youth civic engagement / Marc Flacks -- Grow 'em strong : conceptual challenges in researching childhood resilience / Michael Ungar -- A roof over their head : applied research issues and dilemmas in the investigation of homeless children and youth / Yvonne Vissing -- With a capital G : gatekeepers and gatekeeping in research with children / Madeline Leonard -- Will the least-adult please stand up? : life as older sister Katy in a Taiwanese elementary school / Kathryn Gold Hadley -- The outsider lurking online : adults researching youth cyberculture / Alyssa Richman -- Racing age : reflections of antiracist research with teenage girls / Jessica Karen Taft -- What if a guy hits on you? : intersections of gender, sexuality, and age in fieldwork with adolescents / C.J. Pascoe -- Trouble on memory lane : adults and self-retrospection in researching youth / Sari Knopp Biklen -- Power-puff ethnography/guerilla research : children as native anthropologists / Elizabeth Chin -- Performing youth : youth agency and the production of knowledge in community-based theater / Stephani Etheridge Woodson -- Beyond straight interpretations : researching queer youth digital video / Susan Driver.
"View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction."In this volume, Amy Best offers critical youth studies an epistemological compass, a collection of essays that spans across nations, methods, sexualities, ethnicities, generations and age, reflecting provocatively on how we create knowledge with, for and by youth. This book promises to be a classic for the next generation of scholars perched to engage critically, respectfully, theoretically and provocatively with youth, to inscribe a twenty-first century signature on critical youth studies." -Michelle Fine, co-author of Working Method: Research and Social Justice"A powerful and compelling book that represents cutting-edge new directions in critical youth studies. This is a passionate call for a critical moral consciousness that will create more humane spaces for today's youth in our complex global culture." -Norman K. Denzin, co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative ResearchFrom youth culture to adolescent sexuality to the consumer purchasing power of children en masse, studies are flourishing. Yet doing research on this unquestionably more vulnerable-whether five or fifteen-population also poses a unique set of challenges and dilemmas for researchers. How should a six-year-old be approached for an interview? What questions and topics are appropriate for twelve year olds? Do parents need to give their approval for all studies?In Representing Youth, Amy L. Best has assembled an important group of essays from some of today?s top scholars on the subject of youth that address these concerns head on, providing scholars with thoughtful and often practical answers to their many methodological concerns. These original essays range from how to conduct research on youth in ways that can be empowering for them, to issues of writing and representation, to respecting boundaries and to dealing with issues of risk and responsibility to those interviewed. For anyone doing research or working with children and young adults, Representing Youth offers an indispensable guide to many of the unique dilemmas that research with kids entails.Contributors include: Amy L. Best, Sari Knopp Biklen, Elizabeth Chin, Susan Driver, Marc Flacks, Kathryn Gold Hadley, Madeline Leonard, C.J. Pascoe, Rebecca Raby, Alyssa Richman, Jessica Taft, Michael Ungar, Yvonne Vissing, and Stephani Etheridge Woodson."--Publisher description.
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Youth--Study and teaching Children--Study and teaching Youth--Research Children--Research.