Researching children's perspectives
This text addresses issues and practicalities surrounding the obtaining of children's views, particularly in the research context. Its distinctiveness rests on the scrutiny of methodological issues pertaining to the collection of children's views and inclusion of sample data collection instruments.
Print Book, English, 2000
Open University Press, Buckingham, 2000
XV, 239 p. ; 24 cm
9780335202805, 9780335202799, 0335202802, 0335202799
912168558
Part 1 Ethical issues in researching children's perspectives: children's rights; researching children's perspectives - legal dimension; researching children's perspectives - developmental dimension; researching children's perspectives - sociological dimension. Part 2 Children and care proceedings: children and bereavement; the educational aspirations of children with Down's syndrome; children with severe learning difficulties; boys and gender; researching children's perspectives on their experience of religion; researching children and young people's beliefs about health - a "risky" business; collecting the views of MLD school pupils' on curriculum and assessment; falling out of school - a reflective account of a young woman's perspective on her chequered experience of schooling.