CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Research, Critical Thinking, Autoethnography

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 1F90
• Professor: Shauna Pomerantz

Document Summary

Getting to know you: doing research on and with young people. Defines what is worth knowing about young people. Power to story the world (whose story?) The choice of who and what you research is important cause its what becomes visible or not visible. Our job is to pay attention and critical of whose story gets told and whose story gets ignored. Discourse is part of what research does, it makes certain things seem important as truth. Expanding your empire and reach: colonialism: Looking down upon the people that you"re researching. Research on children and youth: children as: Knowing: discourses towards children, youth as: Where does this knowledge come from: media, pop culture, law, government, education, how young people are shaped, academic researchers: What is qualitative research: qualities of life: What makes us human: the quality of our lives, different for everyone, life, in situ: Capturing a way of life and capturing how young people exist today: collecting data on: