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This article discusses the importance of conducting research that aligns with the standards set by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and promotes the capacity of children to claim their rights. It explores the benefits of participatory and inclusive research methods in improving decision-making, efficiency, and ethical acceptability.
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Research methodology about children’s rights Kay Tisdall, k.tisdall@ed.ac.uk Programme Director of MSc in Childhood Studies, University of Edinburgh Co-Director CRFR
What might be a children’s rights approach to research? • Research aims should be informed by the CRC standards; • Research processes should comply with the CRC standards; and • Research outcomes should build the capacity of children, as rights-holders, to claim their rights and build the capacity of duty-bearers to fulfil their obligations. http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/CentreforChildrensRights/ChildrensRights-BasedResearch/#d.en.335811
What do young people advise? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB6rDYLPf0A
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Turning to the person next to you … Introduce yourself and then talk about … What implications do children’s rights have for research methods?
Claims for ‘participatory’ methods • Epistemological benefits: participatory techniques “access and valorize previously neglected knowledges and provide more nuanced understandings of complex social phenomena.” Kesby (2000, p.423). Helping to improve decision making and efficiency.
2. Ethical Benefits: “effective methodology and ethics go hand in hand…the reliability and validity, and the ethical acceptability, of research with children can be augmented by using an approach which gives children control over the research process and methods which are in tune with children’s ways of seeing and relating to their world.” (Thomas and O’Kane 1998, p.336-337) 3. Inclusive: • Multiple methods allow for multiple ways of communicating • Creative or arts-based methods are ‘levellers’, so all can participate
More information on CRFR, University of Edinburgh .. Continuing Professional Courses on research and consultation with children and young people … http://www.crfr.ac.uk/eventsandtraining/training/cpd-training/ MSc/Diploma in Childhood Studies http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/pgtcs