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- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing
- Copyright
- Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- ISSN
- 1443-9883
- DOI
- 10.3316/QRJ1102017
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
This article explores the processes and practices of doing participatory research with children. It explores how this process can be represented in writing. The article comes out of a project funded by Creative Partnerships UK, in which a creative agent, three artists and a researcher all worked within an elementary school in South Yorkshire, UK, for two years, to focus on the childrens Reasons to Write. It considers whether it is truly possible for children to enter the academic domain. Using a number of different voices, the article interrogates this. It particularly focuses on childrens role in analysing and selecting important bits of data. It engages with the lived realities of children as researchers. It considers ways in which childrens voices can be represented, and also acknowledges the limitations of this approach for adults who want to write academic peer reviewed articles. Ideas the adults thought were clever were found to be redundant in relation to childrens epistemologies. The article considers the process that is involved in taking childrens epistemologies seriously.
Journal
Qualitative Research Journal – Emerald Publishing
Published: Aug 3, 2011