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

Parry, Becky

Authors

Becky Parry



Contributors

Dylan Yamada-Rice
Editor

Eve Stirling
Editor

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 Mar 29, 2024
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
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/763402
Publisher URL http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137402288?wt_mc=ThirdParty.SpringerLink.3.EPR653.About_eBook#otherversion=9781349580279
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

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