Understanding Research with Children and Young People
- Alison Clark - The Open University
- Rosie Flewitt - Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
- Martyn Hammersley - The Open University, UK
- Martin Robb - The Open University
Educational Research Methods | Public Health Research Methods | Social Work Research Methods
How do views about children shape research concerned with their lives? What different forms can research with children take? What ethical issues does it involve? How does it impact on policy and practice, and on the lives of children themselves?
This book helps you to understand how research is designed and carried out to explore questions about the lives of children and young people. It tackles the methodological, practical and ethical challenges involved, and features examples of actual research that illustrate:
- Different strategies for carrying out research
- Common challenges that arise in the research process
- Varying modes of engagement that researchers can adopt with participants and audiences; and
- The impact that research can have on future studies, policy and practice.
This book has supported a Dissertation student I have been supervising. It has helped guide, especially around common challenges, different strategies and ethical issues.
It is a great starting point and it will be used again to support students who are embarking on a reserch project.
A very helpful book which covers all aspects of research. Ideal for anyone looking to conduct research in education.
A recommended text to our MSc students doing research with children and young people
It is a very interesting coursebook which helps srudents to understand that research with children and young people need a lot of ethical considerations. That it is also not that easy to conduct research with children and young people. I will highly recommend this book to the master students who think about doing research with children and young people
This is a favourite!
This is an excellent text that supports the principals of effective pedagogy. Essential for anyone working with young children.
A really great research text that explains ideas clearly. Covers ideas in depth.
Informative and ethical considerations to the fore!
This book is very useful and comprehensive. We are currently refreshing our module on methodology, so I will be recommending that we draw on this book as we do this, as well as recommending it to students.
This is a valuable course book for introducing learners to the methologies and ethical issues of research with young children.
