scholarly journals Future workshops as a means to democratic, inclusive and empowering research with children, young people and others

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 432-448
Author(s):  
Sarah Alminde ◽  
Hanne Warming
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Young People ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sensitive Topics ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Conducting Research

During the past decades, awareness has grown concerning the need for more democratic and inclusive research methods. This is especially salient for marginalised, colonised and silenced groups, such as the elderly, children and young people. In this article, we present and discuss future workshops as an appropriate method to achieve such democratic and inclusive research, and we posit that it can fruitfully be used together with other approaches outside the field of action research in which it has mostly been used to date. The discussion is based on our research with children and young people on sensitive and conflictual issues. We show how future workshops offer particular advantages when conducting research with children and young people in vulnerable situations, and about silenced and sensitive topics. We argue that these advantages, as well as ethical and other insights, can be transferred to research with other groups of people.

scholarly journals Research ethics in practice: challenges of using digital technology to embed the voices of children and young people within programs for fathers who use domestic violence

2020 ◽  
pp. 174701612093632
Author(s):  
Katie Lamb ◽  
Cathy Humphreys ◽  
Kelsey Hegarty
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Young People ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Visual Research Methods ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Safety Considerations

There has been growing enthusiasm amongst those who undertake research with children, for the development of participatory and visual research methods. The greater availability and affordability of digital technology (such as digital cameras, tablets and smart phones) has meant that there has been greater scope for digital technology to support participatory research methods, or augment more traditional qualitative research methods. While digital technology provides new opportunities for qualitative researchers, they also come with a series of challenges – some of which have been grappled with by those using more traditional research methods but also some which are new. Our study was undertaken in Victoria, Australia, and used a combination of interviews, focus groups and digital storytelling to bring together two strands of work which have historically occurred separately: work with children experiencing domestic violence and programs for men who use domestic violence. While digital storytelling proved to be an effective method of engaging children and young people in the research, a range of challenging ethical issues emerged. Some of these issues were considered as part of the formal ‘procedural ethics’ process, but additional and more challenging issues relating to anonymity and the complex safety considerations of using of the children’s digital stories within programs for men who use violence and dissemination emerged in practice. It is hoped that sharing our experiences and decision-making will contribute to the knowledge base for others considering engaging in sensitive research using digital technology.

Introduction: Childhood and migration — mobilities, homes and belongings

Childhood ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitríona Ní Laoire ◽  
Fina Carpena-Méndez ◽  
Naomi Tyrrell ◽  
Allen White
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
And Migration

This article introduces a special issue on childhood and migration. It argues that understandings of the ways in which children form belongings and attachments are enhanced by conducting research with children who migrate or who live mobile and transnational lives. The articles in this collection highlight the mobile and translocal nature of children’s lives, from different perspectives and in different global and migration contexts. Taken together, they make a number of key contributions to an emerging literature on the lives of migrant, mobile and diasporic children and young people. They emphasize the situated and contextualized nature of migrant children’s negotiations of home and belonging. In particular, the collection explores children’s and young people’s constructions of home and belonging, often negotiated in contradictory or challenging circumstances and frequently destabilizing powerful assumptions about the nature of migration, mobility and childhood, such as ideals of childhood based on notions of residential fixity.

Education through and to love - Sexuality as a source of conflict in German pastoral care of youth and the possibilities of practice in sex education

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
Stefan Gärtner
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Young People ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Positive Potential ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
The Past

The climate in German Catholic pastoral care of youth with regards to sex education is in a sorry plight. This is due to the fact that the conflicts of the past are still very much alive. At the same time, however, there is a positive potential for development in this field of pastoral care of youth. This is especially significant, because friendship and sexuality are such important themes for children and young people. Indeed, pastoral care of youth will have to take into account their special life situation and the changed social context. Individualised, postmodern society offers a large number of sexual options. Against this background, we will end by outlining some fundamental perspectives for sex educational concepts in pastoral care of youth, in which teaching them to love and the ability to form relationships is central.

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