Respectful Research With and About Young Families

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Surveying the Terrain—Realising the Potential of Researching with Young Families

   • Alice Brown

   Pages 1-32

3. ‘An Audit on Self’—Positioning Ourselves for Researching with Young Families

   • Alice Brown

   Pages 33-72

4. Interpretivism—Valuing the Unfolding Lives and Stories of Young Families

   • Alice Brown

   Pages 73-109

5. Knock, Knock! Who’s There? Opening the Door to Creating Ethical, Respectful, and Participatory Research Spaces with Young Families

   • Alice Brown

   Pages 111-148

6. Gathering Layers of Meaning in Context

   • Alice Brown

   Pages 149-190

7. Considering CHE (Connectivity, Humanness, and Empathy)—Principles for Sustaining Respectful, Authentic, and Dialogical Research with Young Families

   • Alice Brown

   Pages 191-227

8. The ‘Retelling’ of Stories Through Sense-Making of Data

   • Alice Brown

   Pages 229-257

9. Forging Frontiers—Reframing, Methodological Innovation, and Possibilities for Research with, and of, Young Families

   • Alice Brown

   Pages 259-285

10. Back Matter

    Pages 287-290

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This book explores the distinctive theoretical and methodological features associated with conducting ethical and respectful research with young families, along with its unique considerations and challenges. With parents and young children understood to be both major players and ‘first educators’ in supporting childhood health, development and learning, this book examines how opportunities for research can be conceptualised within this privileged space. This volume embraces an interdisciplinary approach to this research, examining topics such as researcher identity and positioning, issues of consent, notions of power and relationships with families, methods for collecting data and frameworks for making sense of that data. Rather than providing concrete methods of practices and tools, this book will help raise the consciousness of researchers who are engaged in research with these young families. It is sure to appeal to students and scholars of education and early childhood development,as well as those concerned with conducting research ethically and respectfully.

• Early Years Education
• Researching with Young Children
• Respectful research with families
• Researcher relationships
• Education research methods and concerns

• Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield Central, Australia

  Alice Brown

Alice Brown is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her research interests include active play in early childhood, health and wellbeing, as well as social ecology.

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