3rd Edition

Research with Children Perspectives and Practices

Edited By Pia Christensen, Allison James Copyright 2017
240 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The entirely revised third edition of Research with Children forms a unique resource book on the methodology of childhood research with a core emphasis on theory driven practices. As in the previous two editions, this edition presents particular standpoints in the field, whilst also reflecting the latest developments in the now well-established interdisciplinary field of childhood studies.... Read more

Introduction: Researching children and childhood: Cultures of communication

Pia Christensen and Allison James

1. Entering and observing in children’s worlds: A reflection on a longitudinal ethnography of early education in Italy

William A. Corsaro and Luisa Molinari

2. Macroanalysis of childhood

Jens Qvortrup

3. Researching children and childhood in the digital age

Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross

4. Using visual and digital research methods with young children

Dylan Yamada-Rice

5. Researching children’s complex family lives and respecting inter-generational relationships

Hayley Davies

6. Race, gender and critical reflexivity in research with young children

Paul Connolly

7. Disabled children, ethnography and unspoken understandings: The collaborative construction of diverse identities

John Davis and Nick Watson with Sarah Cunningham-Burley

8. Listening to children: And hearing them

Helen Roberts

9. Turning the tables: Children as researchers

Nigel Thomas

10. Participatory research on kinship care in East Africa

Clare O’Kane

11. Utopian research with children

Biography

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

Allison James is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK.She has researched extensively in children’s culture.