Overview
- Points to the need to bring young people’s perspectives, agendas and experiences into critical dialogue with researchers’, policy- makers’, and practitioners’ perspectives on young people
- Argues the need to involve young people as active partners in knowledge production
- Analyzes well-known and often-employed methodological approaches
Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited volume develops critical discussions of prominent methodological approaches in participatory youth research. Chapters give special attention to power issues and dilemmas concerning young people’s and researchers’ involvement in research processes. The collection brings together perspectives of authors from throughout Nordic countries, all with comprehensive experience of qualitative research methods involving young people.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Trine Wulf-Andersen is Associate Professor of Youth, Welfare and Participatory Research, as well as Head of the Education, Social Inclusion and Profession Research Group at Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research interests include young people’s education and learning processes, identity and belonging, mental health and well-being and youth participation in research.
Reidun Follesø is Professor of Social Work in the Department of Health, Social and Welfare Studies at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Her research interests include child protection, youth research and children’s and youth’s participation in research and service development.
Terje Olsen is Research Director at Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research in Oslo, Norway. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Nordic Welfare Research. His research interests include welfare state issues, disability studies, youth research, marginalization and labour market participation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Involving Methods in Youth Research
Book Subtitle: Reflections on Participation and Power
Editors: Trine Wulf-Andersen, Reidun Follesø, Terje Olsen
Series Title: Studies in Childhood and Youth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75941-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75940-7Published: 20 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75943-8Published: 21 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75941-4Published: 19 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2731-6467
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 276
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Education, general, Research Methods in Education