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Ethical Research with Children This page intentionally left blank Ethical Research with Children Untold Narratives and Taboos Sarah Richards, Jessica Clark and Allison Boggis UniversityCampusSuffolk,UK ©SarahRichards,JessicaClarkandAllisonBoggis2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-35130-2 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorshaveassertedtheirrightstobeidentifiedastheauthorsofthis workinaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2015by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-55996-1 ISBN 978-1-137-35131-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-35131-9 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. To our children This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofFigures viii Introduction 1 1 BoundariesandBattlegrounds:NegotiatingFormal EthicalApprovalforResearchwithChildrenandYoung People 14 2 EthicalSpacesandPlaces 32 3 TheRightsofParticipationandtheRealitiesofInclusion 62 4 TheIllusionofAutonomy:FromAgencyto Interdependency 78 5 RamificationsofCategoryEntitlement:InWhatWays DoesWhoWeAreDetermineWhatOthersWillSay? 99 6 PrivilegingVoices 121 Conclusion 146 References 155 Index 176 vii Figures 2.1 ThisisastoryaboutwhereIwasborninChina 44 4.1 TheplacewhereIlivenow 91 4.2 Firstdaysinmyfamily 92 viii Introduction ThisbookbuildsonthelegacyofworkbyHobbsandMay(1993)and BellandNewby(1977),someofthefirstresearcherstopublishcollec- tionsofpersonalaccountsofdoingsocialresearch.Tellingstoriesisa naturalpartofthehumancondition(Barthes1977).Theyhelpusto understandourworlds,enableustoexplorewhoweareandfacilitate ourinteractionswithothers.Indeed,suchistheinevitabilityofnar- rativesitisarguedtobeproblematicalonlyinacultureinwhichthey areabsent(White1980:5).Here,inthisbook,wetellsomeofoursto- ries with the aim of shining a light on the ways in which research withchildrenisconstructed,conductedandcritiqued.Movingfrom the proscriptive accounts of how research should be conducted, the latterdecadesofthe20thcenturysawariseintheexplicitconsidera- tionofresearchasfarfromstraightforward(see,forexample,Devine and Heath 1999). This book emphasises that by acknowledging and talking about these challenges and ethical dilemmas, students, aca- demics, researchers and practitioners are better placed to engage in empiricalresearchwithchildren. The rise in telling stories across the social sciences to understand thelandscapesofourworld(seeFrank2010;Oakley2007;Plummer 2001) developed in parallel with an increased interest in the stories of children and childhood (Cockburn 1998; James and Prout 1997; Wall2010).Tellingstoriesisnotnew,exploringethicsintheresearch process is not new and, as shall be seen in Chapter 1, research with children certainly is not new either. In fact, research with children isnowwellenoughestablishedtowithstandreflexivecritiquethatis aimedatstrengtheningratherthandiminishingthefield(Gallacher 1
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