scholarly journals Child-Led Research: Questioning Knowledge

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricio Cuevas-Parra ◽  
E. Kay M. Tisdall
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Developmental Models ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Generational Difference

Over the last twenty years, childhood studies has challenged the schooled and developmental models of childhood. The children’s rights agenda has combined with academic childhood studies, to emphasise that children are and can be social actors and to seek ways to recognise and support their participation rights. For those who promote the participation of children and young people, there is considerable enthusiasm to involve them in all research stages—from research planning, fieldwork, and analysis to dissemination, leading to growth in what is often called ‘child-led research’. This article draws upon an empirical study of ‘child-led research’ projects, undertaken in Bangladesh, Jordan and Lebanon, for a critical examination of the meanings and implications of ‘child-led research’. In particular, this paper explores what counts as knowledge in social science research within contexts of generational difference and power.

Justifying children and young people’s involvement in social research: Assessing harm and benefit

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Kennan ◽  
Pat Dolan
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Ethical Obligation ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Theoretical Context ◽  
Balanced Assessment

At a time when children and young people’s involvement in research is increasingly the norm, this article reflects on the importance of a well-reasoned and transparent justification for their inclusion or exclusion. It explores the dilemma of a researcher’s ethical obligation to protect children and young people from harm and at the same time respect their autonomy as social actors and independent rights holders to participate in research of relevance to their lives. A researcher’s ethical obligation to conduct a rigorous but balanced assessment of harm and benefit is reiterated. The article takes the debate beyond a call for assessing harm and benefit to providing a strategy for conducting such an assessment at the point of research design. Reflecting on two research projects the authors were involved in, three critical considerations are identified. These are: the purpose and the theoretical context of the research; the preferences of the children and young people and their parents; and the available time and resources. The article draws on the research examples to illustrate the assessment process in practice.

scholarly journals Reflective insights from developing a palliative care children and young people’s advisory group

2021 ◽  
pp. 026921632097603
Author(s):  
Anna Roach ◽  
Debbie Braybrook ◽  
Steve Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Young People ◽  
Health Research ◽  
School Health ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
After School ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Care Research

Background: The importance of actively involving patient and public members throughout the different stages of palliative care and health research projects is widely acknowledged, however patient and public involvement work rarely considers insight from children and young people. Although this is becoming increasingly recognised in other areas of research, there is currently no structured guidance on how to best involve children and young people in palliative care research. Aim: To plan and deliver a Young People’s Advisory Group in palliative care and health research at a secondary school. Findings: Attending an after-school ‘Health and Social Research Methods Club’ for 11 weeks benefitted children and researchers. Children were taught about data collection methods, data analysis and ethics in health research and used these skills to provide valuable feedback which has been implemented in current palliative care research projects. Children took part in considered discussions around palliative care topics and enjoyed attending the group. Conclusion: This project has equipped researchers with skills and provided a structured template for future Young People’s Advisory Groups, ensuring the unique voices of children and young people are considered and valued in future palliative care research.

scholarly journals Klimaaktivisme – for en kritisk pædagogik i skolen

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Üzeyir Tireli ◽  
Jens Christian Jacobsen
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
International Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
The World ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Social Competences

The escalating destruction of the climate has caused children and young people around the world to react. Greta Thunberg is a symbol of a rising activism for the climate. To support this process and especially the teachers’ work in the school, we explore how a reformulation of the critical-pedagogical tradition can mobilize students in the school so that they can implement realistic and responsible climate action. To this end, we have developed a model for analysis. The model is theoretical and normative and is designed with inspiration from national and international research projects in order to support a political formation process and the development of social competences across the school disciplines.

scholarly journals Social Science Perspective on Artificial Intelligence

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Lindgren ◽  
Jonny Holmström
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Societal Context ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Human Actors

In this article, we discuss and outline a research agenda for social science research on artificial intelligence. We present four overlapping building blocks that we see as keys for developing a perspective on AI able to unpack the rich complexities of sociotechnical settings. First, the interaction between humans and machines must be studied in its broader societal context. Second, technological and human actors must be seen as social actors on equal terms. Third, we must consider the broader discursive settings in which AI is socially constructed as a phenomenon with related hopes and fears. Fourth, we argue that constant and critical reflection is needed over how AI, algorithms and datafication affect social science research objects and methods. This article serves as the introduction to this JDSR special issue about social science perspectives on AI.

scholarly journals Regulating Bodies: Children and Sexual Violence

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (16) ◽  
pp. 1956-1979
Author(s):  
Heather R. Hlavka
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Institutional Review Boards ◽  
Child Sexual Assault ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Epistemic Violence ◽  
Children And Childhood

The interdisciplinary silences on sexual violence and the omission of children and youth from social science research speak volumes of the power of the child as a flexible, cultural signifier. In this article, I argue that dominant frameworks of children and childhood make child sexual assault a discursive impossibility for most young people. The epistemic violence of silencing matters, and it is these erasures that are fundamental to understanding violence and power. I argue it is paramount for feminist researchers to call attention to the undermining qualities of Institutional Review Boards that act as gatekeepers of representation and voice.

Rebraiding Photovoice: Methodological Métissage at the Cultural Interface

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Standpoint Theory ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Cultural Interface

Photovoice, the most prevalent participatory visual research methodology utilised within social science research, has begun making its way into Indigenous contexts in light of its critical and pedagogical potential. However, this potential is not always actualised as the assumptions that undergird photovoice are often the same ones that (re)produce inequalities. Working from the notion that methodologies are the space in between theory, methods, and ethics, this manuscript works with/in the cultural interface between the Western theories that shape photovoice (i.e., standpoint theory, praxis) and Indigenous analogues (i.e., Nakata's [2007a, 2007b] Indigenous standpoint theory, Grande's [2004, 2008] Red pedagogy) in order to differentially (re)braid photovoice. Following a thumbnail description of these four bodies of scholarship, a concept key to photovoice (i.e., voice) is differentially configured with, in, and for the cultural interface to provide research considerations for various stages of participatory visual research projects (i.e., fieldwork, analysis, dissemination).

scholarly journals Questioning Inclusion: The Education of Roma/Traveller Students and Young People in Europe and England — A Critical Examination

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyros Themelis
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Impact

This article deals with issues pertinent to the ‘inclusion’ of Roma/Traveller children and young people in Europe and, in particular, England. It discusses some key issues that pertain to the inclusion of Roma/Traveller groups in society and it critically presents some key policies that have been advanced to tackle educational and social exclusion of these groups. The aim in this article is to explore the impact these approaches have had thus far and to unravel some of the contradictions, inconsistencies and tensions that permeate them. The critical examination of such approaches is principally located within the context of the United Kingdom, but relevant policies and initiatives that have been introduced by supra-national European organisations are also discussed in order to inform the reader about the wider context in relation to the issues many Roma/Traveller groups face. Inclusion does not operate in a vacuum. It is argued that a set of structural and ideological factors that impact on inclusion need to be identified and linked to a renewed and enriched inclusion approach. In fighting exclusion, holistic and sustained approaches are necessary, which cut across social, political, economic and cultural domains and extend well beyond the formal education of one group (the Roma/Travellers).

scholarly journals Succeeding with interactive research: How to manage research with and about society

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Hagedorn Krogh ◽  
Morten Velsing Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Leadership ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Research Management ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Governance Network ◽  
Scientific Standards ◽  
Multiple Actors ◽  
Tools And Methods

Increasingly, social science research is carried out in collaboration with partners outside universities, yet research methodology is lacking on how to manoeuvre in a terrain where multiple actors set expectations for research. This article conceptualizes interactive research as research with and about society, and provides a set of systematic reflections on how to manage opposing pressures, tensions and dilemmas in interactive research projects. We formulate and address three major interactive research management tasks: ensuring continual commitment from external stakeholders, maintaining the capacity for critique and ensuring that scientific standards are met. Based on our own experience and theories of interactive governance, network management and collaborative leadership, as well as on existing methodological literature, we provide guidance and suggest concrete tools and methods for performing the tasks in order to avoid the pitfalls and harvest the gains of interactive research.

scholarly journals Freeing the Elephant-eating Boa: Theorizing Children in Philippine Social Science Research

Plaridel ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-206
Author(s):  
Cheeno Marlo del Mundo Sayuno
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Body ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social

Both the child character and the child audience contribute significantly to the body of research on childhood studies. How children think, learn, and behave have been researched in many studies on psychology and education. Meanwhile, the social sciences have also become a home for childhood studies due to the richness of content for children in broadcast and print, which is the focus of this literature review. The paper explores how children are theorized in social sciences in the Philippines. Through a survey of prominent journals such as Plaridel, Humanities Diliman, Social Science Diliman, and Kritika Kultura, this paper identifies the discursive roles that children play in research concerning their communicative styles, and text and media consumption. In addition, the paper also analyzes how children are represented in literature on childhood studies. This review encourages providing a more active role for children in research and literary works about and for them published in the social sciences, the arts, and the humanities. Children can have a wide and insightful imagination the way the Little Prince has. Children are not petty participants. Children matter. Children are powerful.

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