Children as political agents: Methodological and ethical implications in studying the Child perspective in CCR research

Author(s):

Guadalupe Francia(presenting / submitting)Silvia Edling(presenting)

Conference:

ECER 2014

Network:

25. Research on Children's Rights in Education

Format:

Paper

Session Information

25 SES 11, Ethical Issues

Paper Session

Time:

2014-09-04

17:15-18:45

Room:

B034 Anfiteatro

Chair:

Louise Phillips

Contribution

Starting from the idea of child as a political agent ( Pilcher, 2002;2008) this research discusses methodological and ethical implications for the analysis of the child perspective in for Convention of the Right of the Child (CRC) research.

Based on the analysis of bullying cases in boarding schools in Sweden this research discusses the use of alternative data collection methods as a strategy to overcame impossibilities to include children s’ voices by life-history interviews or surveys. Furthermore, it exemplifies and discusses contradictions and diversity in the interpretation of children s’ voices in relation to CRC.

Method

This contribution is based on analysis of texts produced by Swedish Education authorities, Polices authorities, Boarding schools staff, parents, pupils and media. Critical Discourse Analisis is used in the research.

Expected Outcomes

This contribution shows the interpretation of the child perspective in the analysis of bullying bullying practices in Swedish boarding elite’s schools is complex and involves different and contradictory voices. It argues that policies and practices against bullying that pay attention to CRC sometimes are in conflict to children’s’ own perspective. This contribution contributes with relevant methodological in the research focused on Children's perspective and Children’s right and it is even relevant for similar research studies in other European and international contexts.

References

James, A., and James, A.L. (2004) Constructing Childhood: Theory, Policy and Social Practice. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan Poynting & Donaldson 2005 Men and Masculinities, ISSN 1097-184X, 04/2005, Volym 7, Nummer 4, pp. 325 - 346 ...-Class Boys'Boarding Schools SCOTT POYNTING University of Western Sydney MIKE DONALDSON National Tertiary Education UnionNew South Wales Critical discourse analysis: the critical study of languageCover Image av Fairclough, Norman, 1941 1995, Language in social life series, ISBN 9780582219847, xiii, 265 s. : faks., tab. Piltcher J. Research with children: perspectives and practices 2008, 2. ed., ISBN 0415416841, p. 295 ... Piltcher J. The Moral and Political Status of ChildrenCover Image Fulltext av Archard, David och MacLeod, Colin M 11/2002, ISBN 9780199242689, p. 304 ... 6.

Author Information

Guadalupe Francia (presenting / submitting)

Uppsala University

Department of Education

Uppsala

Silvia Edling (presenting)

Gävle University

Faculty of Education and Business Studies

Gävle

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