ISBN:
9780415633277
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (160 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Negotiating Adult-Child Relationships in Early Childhood Research
DDC:
305.23072
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Negotiating Adult-Child Relationships in Early Childhood Research presents a substantive critique of technicist and neoliberal approaches to ethics through an exploration of the complicated and often 'messy' situations faced in negotiating relationships in research with children. Despite growing acknowledgement of their centrality, relationships between adult researchers and very young participants have been neglected and under-theorised, and in response, this book offers a comprehensive conceptualisation of adult-child research relationships through examination of questions, inclu
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Considering adult-child relationships in research; Situating the project; From the technicist to the relational; A guide to the book; Notes; 2. The Spaces and places of research relationships; The early childhood setting as a research context; Relationships with(in) neoliberal early childhood settings; 'Choice' and marketised relations; The child as 'social investment' or 'human capital'; A 'strongly governed' market; The geography of early childhood settings
Description / Table of Contents:
3. Children and adults, participants and researchers: What do we make of each other?'Who are you?'; Bodied relationships; Size matters; Hair matters; Bums matter; 4. A web of relationships: Encounters between researchers educators, and children; 'Roles' matter; Experience matters; (Non-)motherhood matters; Food and weight matters; 5. The educator as Researcher: Implications for research relationships; Educator-research: A different context - a different relationship?; Negotiating consent in educator-research; Consent through the lens of answerability
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Generating data, generating relationships: From observation to sensing practicesUnravelling observation in early childhood settings; The problematic of research observations; The blurred boundaries of observational practices; Negotiating relationships through sensing practices; Observation through the lens of relational ethics; 7. 'Civilising' children, confronting inequalities: Navigating narratives of the 'good researcher'; Negotiating across 'dangerous' transgressions; Confronting inequalities in early childhood research; Conditions of risk and possibility: Acting with answerability
Description / Table of Contents:
8. Building common cause with children: Reciprocity inthe research processWhat do we mean by 'reciprocity' in research?; Participatory methods in early childhood research; Towards methods in common cause with children: Being with children; Research in common cause: Beyond the here and now of data generation; Towards a relational ethics; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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