Places are now available on a one-day training workshop on 'Children and
Young People as Researchers', organised by the ESRC National Centre for
Research Methods
The event will be held on 23 February 2005 at the Manchester Conference
Centre, run by Dr Mary Kellett.
This training event spotlights children as researchers and focuses on issues
relating to theory and practice which this concept raises. Articles 12 and
13 of the UNCRC (1989) require that children should be informed, involved
and consulted about all activities that affect their lives. Adults are
getting better at informing, even of consulting children (albeit, frequently
at a tokenistic level) but fall a long way short of ‘involving’ children.
Sessions will focus on:
* Children as active versus participant researchers;
* Importance of child perspective, of children as original contributors to
knowledge and of the emergence of a new research paradigm;
* Power issues and rights-based agendas;
* Implications for practice, including diversity issues.
Examples of children’s own research will be drawn on throughout.
Further information and booking details are available on the NCRM website
http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/events/20050201/children_rsch.php or from Becky Clarke
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Becky Clarke
Administrator
ESRC National Centre for Research Methods
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 4539
Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 8908
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