Arts-based approaches to research with children: living with mess

Parry, Becky

Abstract

After the emergence of a distinct sociology of childhood, methodological approaches to research with children have been particularly concerned to work ethically and meaningfully with them. In this volume, Elizabeth Wood (Chapter 9) takes us beyond this consideration of ethics, challenging some of the rhetoric about the use of visual media to empower children within a research process. It is important to avoid positioning new technologies, in particular, as a panacea, which enables researchers to get inside children’s minds. However, concerns about the limitations of an overuse of the written and spoken word in research, alongside rapid technological innovation, have precipitated an increased use of visual methods. It is therefore appropriate to reflect on the impact of this change. In this chapter I focus on arts-based methods in research with children and young people, influenced by the notion, perhaps best described by Loris Malaguzzi (1987), that children have 100 languages with which they express their emerging thoughts and ideas and that each form makes different expressions, ideas and articulations possible.

Citation

Parry, B. (2015). Arts-based approaches to research with children: living with mess. In D. Yamada-Rice, & E. Stirling (Eds.), Visual methods with children and young people: academics and visual industries in dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402295

• Publication Date: Oct 21, 2015
• Deposit Date: Feb 2, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 22, 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Series Title: Studies in childhood and youth
• Book Title: Visual methods with children and young people: academics and visual industries in dialogue
• ISBN: 9781349580279
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402295
• Keywords: Children, Research, Remixing, Mess, Arts-based methods
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• Additional Information: Parry Becky, Arts-based approaches to research with children: living with mess, 2015, Palgrave Macmillan reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.; ; This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137402288?wt_mc=ThirdParty.SpringerLink.3.EPR653.About_eBook#otherversion=9781349580279
• Contract Date: Feb 2, 2017