eprintid: 7539 rev_number: 199 eprint_status: archive userid: 3596 dir: disk0/00/00/75/39 datestamp: 2007-05-02 lastmod: 2017-07-09 20:49:40 status_changed: 2008-07-02 23:16:04 type: other metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Kellett, Mary creators_id: mk2527 title: Children as active researchers: a new research paradigm for the 21st century? full_text_status: public keywords: children as researchers; empowerment; research methodologies; abstract: This paper examines the concept of research undertaken by children and the methodological and theoretical issues this raises. It begins with a rationale of research by children and sets this within a context or participation and empowerment, acknowledging the importance of child perspective and voice and valuing the original contribution that child researchers can make to our understanding of childhood and children's lives. It traces the historical and philosophical precedents that have led to this point and explores the question of whether research by children can be accommodated within existing research parameters or whether it requires a new approach even a new research paradigm? The paper also addresses issues of ethics, policy and power relations along with a discussion of the extent to which child research can be free of adult filters and adult influences. It draws on data from a 3-year ation research study empowering children as active researchers and features examples of children's original projects. date: 2005-07-22 date_type: published publisher: ESRC place_of_pub: UK department: WELS|Faculty Office refereed: TRUE official_url: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/publications/methodsreview/MethodsReviewPaperNCRM-003.pdf medium_of_output: text copyright_holders: 2005 The Author faculty_dept: wels research_centre: creet research_centre: CSRG other_type: webpubln other_desc: ESRC Centre Internet publication status_flag: ok commissioning_body: ESRC National Centre for Research Methods verified_by: ctb44 citation: Kellett, Mary (2005). Children as active researchers: a new research paradigm for the 21st century? ESRC, UK. document_url: http://oro.open.ac.uk/7539/1/MethodsReviewPaperNCRM-003.pdf