Finding methods for the inclusion of all children : Advancing participatory research with children with disabilities

• This method-focused article continues the discussion of how methodological challenges in research with children with disabilities can be overcome. By examining the difficulties in introducing walk-and-talk conversations in an ethnographic study with young children (3-11 years) with disabilities, it asks what doing research with means and on whose terms research should take place. The article argues for a shift in the understanding of doing with, from a researcher-controlled research encounter to the focusing of childrens own activities. This ensures the participation of all children in research, by recognizing and listening to the many different ways in which children communicate.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi -- Socialantropologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology -- Social Anthropology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

childrens participation; disabled childrens childhood studies; doing research with; ethnographic methods; qualitative research methods

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)