Research With Children: Perspectives and Practices

For students and researchers in the human and social sciences, Christensen (anthropology and childhood studies, U. of Warwick, UK) and James (sociology, U. of Sheffield, UK) bring together 14 essays on issues in conducting empirical research with children in different social and cultural contexts. Rather than prescribing steps in the process, they present methodological problems that researchers need to consider. They address ethics and reflexivity, quantitative and qualitative approaches, race, and children as researchers. This edition has been updated to include new chapters on research in war-affected areas and on the streets, and gendered aspects of the process. Chapters have been revised or postscripts have been added to them. Contributors work in childhood studies, education, sociology, psychology, and other fields in Europe, the US, and Colombia. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Pia Christensen is Professor of Anthropology and Childhood Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is Director of Childhood Studies and, as a leading ethnographer in the field, she has published widely.

Allison James is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at the University of Sheffield, UK. As a pioneer of the new social sudies of childhood, she has researched extensively in children’s culture.