Being Participatory: Researching with Children and Young People: Co-constructing Knowledge Using Creative Techniques

Description

This book provides a clear framework for conducting participatory research with children and young people supported with practical examples from international research studies. Our aim is to encourage more participatory research with children and young people on all matters that affect their lives. This book illustrates innovative ways of being participatory and sheds new light on involvement strategies that play to children’s and young people’s competencies. Participatory research is based on the recognition of children and young people as active contributors rather than objects of research. Participatory researchers support and value the voices of children and young people in all matters that concern them. Core to participatory research practice is a strengths-based approach that aims to promote the active engagement of children and young people in all stages of research, from inception to implementation and beyond. Engagement of children and young people requires the use of creative, participatory methods, tools and involvement strategies to reveal children’s competencies. This book shares knowledge about creative participatory techniques that can enable and promote children’s ways of expressing their views and experiences. The book provides guidance on appropriate techniques that reduce the power differential in the adult-child relationship and which optimise children’s abilities to participate in research. This book is targeted at researchers, academics, and practitioners who need guidance on what tools are available, how the tools can be used, advantages and challenges, and how best to involve children in all stages of a research project. It will provide several examples of how children can have an active participatory role in research. There is increasing interest in involving children as co-researchers but little guidance on how this can be done. This book fills a this gap by addressing all of these issues and by providing worked examples from leading researchers and academics. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Participatory Research in the Past, Present and Future (Imelda Coyne, Bernie Carter)....Pages 1-13 Principles of Participatory Research (Catherine Wilkinson, Samantha Wilkinson)....Pages 15-35 Ethical Issues in Participatory Research with Children and Young People (Tineke Water)....Pages 37-56 Being Participatory (Kate Harvey)....Pages 57-78 Being Participatory Through Play (Judy Rollins)....Pages 79-102 Being Participatory Through Interviews (Faith Gibson, Lorna Fern, Kate Oulton, Kristin Stegenga, Susie Aldiss)....Pages 103-126 Being Participatory Through Photo-Based Images (Karen Ford, Steven Campbell)....Pages 127-146 Being Participatory Through the Use of App-Based Research Tools (Sophie Hadfield-Hill, Cristiana Zara)....Pages 147-169 Participatory Research: Does It Genuinely Extend the Sphere of Children’s and Young People’s Participation? (Bernie Carter, Imelda Coyne)....Pages 171-178