Respectful Research With and About Young Families

Alice Brown is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her research interests include active play in early childhood, health and wellbeing, as well as social ecology.

• Chapter 1. Surveying the terrain - Realising the potential of researching with young families.- Chapter 2. 'An audit on self' - Positioning ourselves for researching with young families.- Chapter 3. Interpretivism - valuing the unfolding lives and stories of young families.- Chapter 4. Knock, knock! Who's there? Opening the door to creating ethical, respectful and participatory research spaces with young families.- Chapter 5. Gathering layers of meaning in context.- Chapter 6. Considering CHE (connectivity, humanness, and empathy) - Principles for sustaining respectful, authentic and dialogical research with young families.- Chapter 7. The 'retelling' of stories through sense-making of data.- Chapter 8. Forging frontiers - reframing methodological innovation and possibilities for research with and of young families