In A Younger Voice

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-537659-3
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: Child Development in Cultural Context Series

Adults were once children, yet a generational gap can present itself when grown-ups seek to know children's lives, in research. In A Younger Voice discloses how qualitative research, tailored to be child-centered, can shrink the gap of generational unintelligibility. The volume invites and instructs researchers who want to explore children's vantage points as social actors. Its suggested tool kit draws from both academic and applied research, based on the
author's lifelong career as a child-centered qualitative researcher. World round, research in knowing children has grown recently in anthropology, sociology, geography, economics, cultural psychology and a host of applied fields. This book draws widely from the trending child-centered research movement, taking
stock of methods for fulfilling its aims.

In A Younger Voice provides mature researchers with a kid-savvy guide to learning effectively about, from, and with children. The highlighted methods' are steadfastly child-attuned, "thinking smaller" in order to free children to participate with empowerment. From fieldwork and observation, to focus groups and depth interviews, to the use of photography, artwork, and metaphors, viable methods are discussed with an old-hand's acumen for making the procedures practical with children in
the field.

Whether an investigator is at the beginning of a project (designing from scratch procedures to involve and reveal the young) or at the final stages (conducting interpretations and analysis true to children's meanings) In A Younger Voice gives know-how for a challenging area of inquiry. Playfully interviewing children as young as five years old, as well as empowering teenagers to tell it like it is, are tasks revealed to be both doable and essential. For adults seeking to overcome
generational-cultural myopia, these methods are invaluable.

Zielgruppe

Anyone who does, or is interested in doing, child-centered qualitative research, incuding established and new scholars, some of who will use it in teaching -- especially graduate level teaching.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark

Clark, Cindy Dell

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Über Autor(innen)

Cindy Dell Clark has written extensively about children's health, play, and cultural participation. Over a lifetime of academic and applied inquiry, Clark has worked in a playful way to know children not filtered through grown-ups' eyes, but from kids' own viewpoints. She holds a Visiting Associate Professor position in anthropology, at Rutgers University Camden.