Narrating Childhood with Children and Young People

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Introduction: Narrative Research with Children and Young People

   • Lisa Moran, Kathy Reilly, Bernadine Brady

   Pages 1-31

3. Narrations of Home, Care and Identity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33

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   2. Young People Narrating the Meaning of Homelessness and Home

      • Paula Mayock, Sarah Parker

      Pages 35-61

   3. The Experiences of Young Carers in Northern Ireland: Negotiating Pathways to a Positive Sense of Self-Identity—Narratives of Resilience, Risk and Identity

      • Marlene McGibbon

      Pages 63-86

   4. Narrating Childhood in the Present: Growing Sideways with Emily

      • Rachel Thomson

      Pages 87-108

4. Recreation, Place and Community

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Narratives of Recreation and Identity Development Among Muslim Teens

      • Orla McGarry

      Pages 111-131

   3. The ‘Do-ers’ and the ‘Do Nothings’: (Non)Participation in Community, Recreation and Place amongst Young People in Manchester, UK

      • Aimee Harragan

      Pages 133-161

   4. Understanding Community, Culture and Recreation as Resilience Resources for Indigenous Young People

      • Darlene Wall, Linda Liebenberg, Janice Ikeda, Doreen Davis-Ward, Youth Participants from Spaces & Places, Port Hope Simpson

      Pages 163-187

   5. Exploring Childhood in Ireland: Narrating the Places and Spaces of Everyday Life

      • Kathy Reilly, T. J. Hughes

      Pages 189-209

5. Narrative and Educational Spaces

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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   2. Queering Understandings of How Matter Comes to Matter in the Baby Room

      • Jayne Osgood

      Pages 213-236

   3. Authoring Imaginative Selves Through Digital Narratives in the Science Classroom

      • Elizabeth M. Walsh

      Pages 237-256

   4. Narrating the Learning Ecosystem: Knowledge, Environment and Relationships for Participatory and Principled Design of Educational Technology for Childhood and Youth

      • Tony Hall, Cornelia Connolly, Gerry Mac Ruairc, Sally McHugh, Ann Marie Wade, Eílis Flanagan et al.

      Pages 257-280

6. Methods for Narrating Childhoods: Reflexivity, Environment and Biographies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 281-281

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   2. ‘I’d Keep Them Tidy’: Domesticity, Work and Nostalgia in Girls’ Imagined Futures Described in Essays Written by 11 Year Olds in 1969

      • Virginia Morrow, Jane Elliott

      Pages 283-306

   3. The Inextricable Linking of Methods and Narratives: Researchers, Children, and Adults’ Stories of Childhood

      • Ann Phoenix

      Pages 307-328

   4. Topological Mapping: Studying Children’s Experiential Worlds Through Spatial Narratives

      • Kirsi Pauliina Kallio

      Pages 329-352

   5. How Adults Tell: Using a Biographical Narrative Interviewing Methodology to Explore Adults’ Experiences of Sexual Abuse in Childhood

      • Joseph Mooney

      Pages 353-375

This volume draws together scholarly contributions from diverse, yet interlinking disciplinary fields, with the aim of critically examining the value of narrative inquiry in understanding the everyday lives of children and young people in diverse spaces and places, including the home, recreational spaces, communities and educational spaces. Incorporating insights from sociology, geography, education, child and youth studies, social care, and social work, the collection emphasises how narrative research approaches present storytelling as a universally recognizable, valuable and effective methodological approach with children and young people. The chapters points to the diversity of spaces and places encountered by children and young people, considers how young people ‘tell tales’ about their lives and highlights the multidimensionality of narrative research in capturing their everyday lived experiences.

• sociology
• narrative research
• geography
• education
• family
• school

“This edited collection will become a key text in the narrative research with children and on childhood. With an excellent introduction into the tradition of narrative research in the social sciences and narrative research with children and young people in particular, this edited volume features a number of accomplished and up-and-coming researchers in the field. It brings a diversity of methodological approaches to the subject, influenced by literary traditions, philosophically inspired analysis, social history traditions, and psychosocial-geographical approaches. It covers a range of topics and issues that affect children’s everyday lives, with contributions capturing children’s experiences, current and past, from a broad geographical sweep. A little treasure trove of ‘tales,’ this book is indispensable to students, researchers, and members of the public interested in the narrative life especially in our younger years.”
- Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Senior Lecturer in Sociology,Goldsmiths, University of London

“This edited collection offers a powerful, richly-empirical and sensitive account of children and young people’s narratives of everyday life. It demonstrates how the telling of ‘small’ stories can illuminate hugely important, and highly original, accounts of how young people experience rapid social, economic and political transformations. The chapters extend beyond textual stories into forms of
mapping, accounts of material objects, and more.”
- Peter Kraftl, Professor, University of Birmingham, UK


“This multidisciplinary book provides an outstanding resource for significantly advancing research, teaching, and policy through narrative inquiry. It clearly shows the value of narratives as being central to our individual and collective understanding of each other; particularly the lives lived by children and youth. It is important that we remember that itis their stories on which we hang our teaching and learning points upon.” 
- Mark Brennan, Professor, Pennsylvania State University and UNESCO Chair for Rural Community, Leadership and Youth Development, USA

 

• Department of Social Sciences, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK

  Lisa Moran

• School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

  Kathy Reilly

• UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, Institute for Lifecourse and Society, School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

  Bernadine Brady

Lisa Moran is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, Edge Hill University, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. 

Kathy Reilly is Lecturer in the School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway, Ireland.

Bernadine Brady is Lecturer in the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, Ireland.

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