Drawing on the multinational qualitative study Childrens Understandings of Well-being (CUWB), this unique edited collection offers practical insights into conducting fieldwork across diverse geographical, social and cultural contexts, using the same basic protocol.
The book explores the practical, ethical and philosophical challenges the researchers faced, and the ways in which these issues were dealt with by the different research teams. Contributors provide rare insights into the diverse institutional requirements and professional practices highlighting the way research methods are embedded in contexts that are at one and the same time both local and global.
With contributions from experts in child well-being research from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Romania, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK and the US, the book provides valuable perspectives for researchers across a wide range of settings.
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By teasing out the awkwardness, messiness and discomfort of fieldwork with children across diverse contexts, this insightful book illuminates the gaps between theory and practice, between ethics boards and reality. Samantha Punch, University of Stirling
1. Introduction: Examining the Social Realities of Qualitative Research
with Children. Context, Messiness and Multinational Comparison - Tobia
Fattore, Susann Fegter, Lisa Fischer, Jan Mason and Lise Mogensen
Part 1: Power-Relations and Ethics in Research with Children
2. On Vulnerability in Interview Situations in the Field of Childhood
Research: Reflections on the Reproduction of the Generational Order -
Veronika Magyar-Haas and Catrin Heite
3. Transactional Horizons as Mitigation of Power Imbalance in Adult-Child
Interviews - Daniel Stoecklin
4. The Re-Constitution of Children/Childhood and Adults/Adulthood in Research
Process - Stella März
5. Ethical Dilemmas in Doing Research with Children: Dealing with
Asymmetrical Power Relations - Anne Carolina Ramos
6. Legal Protection to Privacy and Consent in Research with Children as an
Ethical Inequality Problem - Lisa Fischer and Stella März
Part 2: Including Marginalised Children in Qualitative Research
7. Navigating Child Well-Being Research in Institutional Settings: Children
with Intellectual Disability and Children in Care - Lise Mogensen, Gabrielle
Drake, Samia Michail, Tobia Fattore, Jan Falloon and Jan Mason
8. Narrating Oneself: How Do Children Negotiate the Telling of Their Lives to
Adult Researchers and How Can We Provide an Adequate Research Frame? - Emre
Erdoan, Pnar Uyan-Semerci and Baak Akkan
9. Conducting Participatory Research with Children in Constrained Contexts:
Methodological Considerations for Training Emerging Researchers Through a
Social Justice Lens - Sabirah Adams, Shazly Savahl, Graciela Tonon and
Phadiel Hoosen
10. Focus Group Method for Studying Wellbeing Children with Intellectual
Disability - Claudia Bacter, Ioana Sîrbu, Adela Lazr and Sergiu Bltescu
Part 3: How Qualitative Methods and Tools Facilitate Research with Children
11. Team Meetings and Field Notes as Sources for Reflecting on the Challenges
of Engaging Children as Research Partners - Christine Gervais, Flavy
Barrette, Élisabeth Lefebvre and Isabel Côté
12. A Collaborative Methodological Approach for Understanding Well-Being in
School: Photographs to See Them/Us and Listen to Them/Us - Lorena
Ramírez-Casas del Valle, Jaime Alfaro, and Verónica López
13. Well-Being Maps and the Introduction of Avatars in Filmmaking:
Reflections on Ethics and Visual Methods in an English Qualitative Study of
Child Well-Being - Colette McAuley
14. Revisiting Observation in Research with Children in the South - Graciela
Tonon and Damián Molgaray
15. (Re)integrating Auditors in Qualitative Research with Children - Daniel
A. DeCino, Lisa A. Newland, Gabrielle A. Strouse and Daniel J. Mourlam
16. Conclusion: Embracing Diverse Cultural Contexts and Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Qualitative Research with Children Across Nations - Lise
Mogensen, Tobia Fattore, Jan Mason, Susann Fegter and Lisa Fischer
Lise Mogensen is Associate Professor in Medical Education at Western Sydney University and disability studies lead on the Australian Children's Understandings of Well-being (CUWB) research team.
Susann Fegter is Head of Department at General and Historical Educational Science, Technische Universität Berlin and project leader of the CUWB research project.
Lisa Fischer is Research Assistant at the Department of General and Historical Educational Science, Technische Universität Berlin and co-lead of the CUWB emerging scholar network.
Jan Mason is Emeritus Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University and former project leader of the CUWB research project.
Tobia Fattore is Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University. He is a project leader on the CUWB research project and co-Editor-in-Chief of Child Indicators Research.
