YC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Informed Consent, Vivid Imaginations
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Lecture 5: research with children: methodological and ethical challenges. Children are looked upon as knowledgeable, competent, strong and powerful members of society. Children are experts on their own lives, knowledge is best gained from the children themselves. Childhood is viewed as a social construction and children are viewed as social actors instead of being in the process of becoming such. Children are seen as worthy of investigation in their own right, separate from their parents caregivers. Un convention of the rights of the child (un, 1989, article 12) A child who is capable of forming his or her own view should have the right to express these views freely on all matters affecting the children, based on their age and maturity. Children are different from adults therefore it is important to use different methods that suit their. What are some of the different research methods used: interviews.