TY - JOUR
T1 - Contested Voices? Methodological Tensions in Creative Visual Research with Children
AU - Lomax, Helen
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This paper contributes to the body of work within the social studies of childhood on creative visual methods and the emerging critique on the participatory assumptions of child-centred creative visual methodology. Drawing on ethnographically informed research with a group of children aged 8-12 years which utilised a range of creative methods including child-led video and photography, the paper provides a methodological focus on the children's interactions with the adult research team, each other and with the children whom they filmed, interviewed and photographed. The paper suggests that attention to the dynamics between children as researchers and participants is essential for understanding how children's voices are made (and diminished) in child-led creative visual methods. Methodological attention to the ways in which children's voices are differently (and unequally) heard in the research encounter is essential for evaluating what such methods bring to research with children and challenges theorisations of a singular children's voice suggested in the literature.
AB - This paper contributes to the body of work within the social studies of childhood on creative visual methods and the emerging critique on the participatory assumptions of child-centred creative visual methodology. Drawing on ethnographically informed research with a group of children aged 8-12 years which utilised a range of creative methods including child-led video and photography, the paper provides a methodological focus on the children's interactions with the adult research team, each other and with the children whom they filmed, interviewed and photographed. The paper suggests that attention to the dynamics between children as researchers and participants is essential for understanding how children's voices are made (and diminished) in child-led creative visual methods. Methodological attention to the ways in which children's voices are differently (and unequally) heard in the research encounter is essential for evaluating what such methods bring to research with children and challenges theorisations of a singular children's voice suggested in the literature.
KW - Children and Young People
KW - Knowledge Production
KW - Methodology
KW - Participatory Creative Visual Methods
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84858596779&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13645579.2012.649408
DO - 10.1080/13645579.2012.649408
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84858596779
VL - 15
SP - 105
EP - 117
JO - International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory and Practice
JF - International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory and Practice
SN - 1364-5579
IS - 2
ER -