Description
Book SynopsisThe rapid expansion of research with children and young people has compelled researchers to engage carefully and critically with the ethical aspects of their research, including considering the best ways to ensure children’s meaningful participation in research in ethically sensitive ways.
This international and multi-disciplinary edited collection unpacks some of the ethical complexities of conducting research with children and young people. The chapters in the volume offer an applied perspective to navigating contemporary and complicated ethical issues that can arise in the field of childhood and youth-centred research. The volume moves beyond a focus on standard, procedural research ethics processes and principles to expose some of the situated ethical moments that researchers grapple with in everyday research practice.
Offering a guide for researchers around the importance of developing ethical reflexivity, and the obstacles to achieving it, this volume raises new debates around research ethics while sustaining pragmatic guidance for future research developments that can support children and young people’s participation in research.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ethics and integrity in research with children and young people; Grace Spencer
Part One: Children and young people’s participation in research – navigating tricky ethical moments
Chapter 1. Beyond agree or disagree: A consent story and storytelling for Indonesian children; Fitri Arlinkasari, Debra Flanders Cushing, and Evonne Miller
Chapter 2. Assent or consent? Engaging children in ethnographic study; Ruth Barley
Chapter 3. Negotiating youth-centred research: Ethical reflections on research with young people in rural and urban spaces in Nigeria; Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam
Chapter 4. Ethically sensitive research with ‘children’ and ‘adults’ in custody; Jayne Price
Chapter 5. Ethical considerations for doing research with, and in relation to, disabled children; Gillian Parekh, Kathryn Underwood, and Abneet Atwal
Part Two: Adult/child power relations and positionality – ethics, emotions and the building trust
Chapter 6. Ethics of positionality in capturing Adivasi youth ‘voices’ in a village community in India; Gunjan Wadhwa
Chapter 7. A balanced approach to ethics in ethnography; Emma Davidson and Christina McMellon
Chapter 8. Research with child street traders: building trust and sensitivity; Sarah Burch and Abiodun Blessing Osaiyuwu
Chapter 9. A Spy in the Family: trust in sensitive research with children; Sofie Henze-Pedersen
Part Three: Children and young people as knowledge producers and the ethics of representation and research dissemination
Chapter 10. Children as Co-Researchers: A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Process; Zoe Moody, Frédéric Darbellay, Sara Camponovo, Ayuko Berchtold-Sedooka, and Philip D. Jaffé
Chapter 11. Conducting research with children, ethically and effectively, to inform public policy; Penelope Carroll, Karen Witten, Melody Smith, Victoria Egli, Suzanne Mavoa, and Marketta Kytta
Chapter 12. Children and young people who migrate – representing and (re)producing vulnerabilities through research; Grace Spencer, Ernestina Dankyi, Stephen O. Kwankye, and Jill Thompson
Chapter 13. Ethical Considerations in Drama-Based Research with Children and Young People; Abigail Shabtay
Chapter 14. A Metacritical Reflection on Academic Writing with Child Researchers; Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Mateusz Marecki
Conclusion: Meeting the ethical challenges in research with children and young people; Grace Spencer
