Reflective Contributions for the Research with Children. Co-responsibility in the Advancement of their Participation
- Marta Beatriz Esteban Tortajada Investigadora predoctoral en formación. Instituto de Investigación en Educación de la Universidad de Barcelona.
- Ferran Crespo i Torres Investigador predoctoral en formación. Facultad de Educación. Universidad de Barcelona.
- Ana Maria Novella Cámara Profesora Agregada. Facultad de Educación. Universidad de Barcelona http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5965-8809
- Marta Sabariego Puig Profesora Titular de Universidad. Facultad de Educación. Universidad de Barcelona https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3826-299X
Abstract
How can we move towards more inclusive and participatory research in the field of childhoods participation? The aim of this article is to contribute, from an epistemological and methodological reflection, some real experiences in which children and adolescents adopt a role as active agents of research. It is necessary to make progress in research with children and to reduce research of an adult-centred nature. The contributions, from three research studies developed in the field of social and political participation of children, show some of the contexts, techniques and practices that are sensitive to the ethics of participatory research with children. Some ideas and reflective elements are proposed to continue advancing in a greater and better co-responsibility of the participation of children in these co-research processes as a participatory practice in itself that promotes agency and the process of building active and activist citizenship, as well as building their role as researchers.
Author Biographies
Member of the Moral Education Research Group (GREM) (2017SGR1099). Her research career has been linked to gender studies and the participation of children and adolescents. Her doctoral thesis, which is currently being redefined, focuses on the concept of human agency in childhood, specifically the recognition of agency rights.
Member of the Moral Education Research Group (GREM) (2017SGR1099). His thesis aims to be developed around the participation of children and adolescents in environmental issues. Previous research has explored the relationship between child participation in non-formal spaces and leisure entities.
Member of the Moral Education Research Group (GREM) (2017SGR1099). Her research career is linked to projects on participation of children and adolescents in the city, leisure and formal education; socio-educational support that favours and promotes the construction of social and political citizenship in childhood; governance of children in assembly spaces and/or children's councils.
Member of the Research Group on Intercultural Education (GREDI) (2017SGR298) Her research career has been mainly linked to projects on intercultural dialogue, youth participation and the construction of an active and inclusive citizenship in the formal educational environment and in socio-educational spaces through the development of participatory methodologies.
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