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Interrupting listening to children: researching with children's secret places in early childhood settings

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posted on 2014-06-01, 00:00 authored by Deb MooreDeb Moore
This paper examines a definitive turning point in an early childhood research study involving children's construction of secret places juxtaposed against the challenge of authentically researching with children. The study was a qualitative case study theoretically positioned within the sociology of childhood. It used child-based research methods and participatory tools from the Mosaic Approach. A dramatic shift in the study occurred when the author realised that to move beyond the dominant discourse of past paradigms required an interruption to the methodological approach of adult-contrived interviews to an approach of listening to but not fully knowing children.

History

Journal

Australasian journal of early childhood

Volume

39

Article number

1

Pagination

4-11

Location

Fyshwick, A.C.T.

ISSN

0312-5033

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2014, Early Childhood Australia

Issue

2

Publisher

Early Childhood Australia Inc.