Qualitative Fieldwork with Children

Lise Mogensen is Associate Professor in Medical Education at Western Sydney University and disability studies lead on the Australian Children's Understandings of Well-being (CUWB) research team.Susann Fegter is Head of Department at General and Historical Educational Science, Technische Universität Berlin and project leader of the CUWB research project.Lisa Fischer is Research Assistant at the Department of General and Historical Educational Science, Technische Universität Berlin and co-lead of the CUWB emerging scholar network.Jan Mason is Emeritus Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University and former project leader of the CUWB research project. Tobia Fattore is Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University. He is a project leader on the CUWB research project and co-Editor-in-Chief of Child Indicators Research.

“By teasing out the awkwardness, messiness and discomfort of fieldwork with children across diverse contexts, this insightful book illuminates the gaps between theory and practice, between ethics boards and reality.” Samantha Punch, University of Stirling

• 1. Introduction: Examining the Social Realities of Qualitative Research with Children. Context, Messiness and Multinational Comparison - Tobia Fattore, Susann Fegter, Lisa Fischer, Jan Mason and Lise MogensenPart 1: Power-Relations and Ethics in Research with Children2. On Vulnerability in Interview Situations in the Field of Childhood Research: Reflections on the Reproduction of the Generational Order - Veronika Magyar-Haas and Catrin Heite3. Transactional Horizons as Mitigation of Power Imbalance in Adult-Child Interviews - Daniel Stoecklin4. The Re-Constitution of Children/Childhood and Adults/Adulthood in Research Process - Stella März5. Ethical Dilemmas in Doing Research with Children: Dealing with Asymmetrical Power Relations - Anne Carolina Ramos6. Legal Protection to Privacy and Consent in Research with Children as an Ethical Inequality Problem - Lisa Fischer and Stella MärzPart 2: Including Marginalised Children in Qualitative Research7. Navigating Child Well-Being Research in Institutional Settings: Children with Intellectual Disability and Children in Care - Lise Mogensen, Gabrielle Drake, Samia Michail, Tobia Fattore, Jan Falloon and Jan Mason8. Narrating Oneself: How Do Children Negotiate the Telling of Their Lives to Adult Researchers and How Can We Provide an Adequate Research Frame? - Emre Erdoğan, Pınar Uyan-Semerci and Başak Akkan9. Conducting Participatory Research with Children in Constrained Contexts: Methodological Considerations for Training Emerging Researchers Through a Social Justice Lens - Sabirah Adams, Shazly Savahl, Graciela Tonon and Phadiel Hoosen10. Focus Group Method for Studying Wellbeing Children with Intellectual Disability - Claudia Bacter, Ioana Sîrbu, Adela Lazăr and Sergiu BălțătescuPart 3: How Qualitative Methods and Tools Facilitate Research with Children11. Team Meetings and Field Notes as Sources for Reflecting on the Challenges of Engaging Children as Research Partners - Christine Gervais, Flavy Barrette, Élisabeth Lefebvre and Isabel Côté12. A Collaborative Methodological Approach for Understanding Well-Being in School: Photographs to See Them/Us and Listen to Them/Us - Lorena Ramírez-Casas del Valle, Jaime Alfaro, and Verónica López13. Well-Being Maps and the Introduction of Avatars in Filmmaking: Reflections on Ethics and Visual Methods in an English Qualitative Study of Child Well-Being - Colette McAuley14. Revisiting Observation in Research with Children in the South - Graciela Tonon and Damián Molgaray15. (Re)integrating Auditors in Qualitative Research with Children - Daniel A. DeCino, Lisa A. Newland, Gabrielle A. Strouse and Daniel J. Mourlam16. Conclusion: Embracing Diverse Cultural Contexts and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Qualitative Research with Children Across Nations - Lise Mogensen, Tobia Fattore, Jan Mason, Susann Fegter and Lisa Fischer