Researching children's experience : methods and approaches

Abstract

PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN RESEARCHING CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCE Researching Children's Experience - Sheila Greene and Malcolm Hill Methods and Methodological Issues Researching 'The Child' in Developmental Psychology - Diane Hogan Researching Children and Childhood - Pia Christensen and Alan Prout Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives Ethical Considerations in Researching Children's Experiences - Malcolm Hill PART TWO: METHODS FOR CONDUCTING RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN Naturalistic Observations of Children in Their Families - Judy Dunn An Ecological Approach to Naturalistic Observations of Children's Everyday Lives - Jonathan Tudge and Diane Hogan Ethnographic Methods with Children and Young People - Ruth Emond PART THREE: THE GENERATION AND ANALYSIS OF TEXT Exploring Meaning through Interviews with Children - Helen Westcott and Karen Littleton Interviewing Children Using an Interpretive Poetics - Annie Rogers Analysing Children's Accounts using Discourse-Analysis - Pam Alldred and Erica Burman Narrative Analysis of Children's Experience - Susan Engel Phenomenological Approaches to Research with Children - Tom Danaher and Marc Briod Exploring Children's Views through Focus Groups - Eilis Hennessy and Caroline Heary Creative Methodologies in Participatory Research with Children - Angela Veale