Intro to CHYS Week 4

Intro to Child and Youth Studies Week 4 Review

Research on children

Usually objective, systematic, unbiased, research often conduct research on children by going into schools or labratories

Ethics

Examines the rational justification for our moral judgements; it studies what is morally right or wrong, just or unjust — researchers are obligated to consider ethical conducts

Key ethical principles

Linked to values/beliefs, benefit outweighs risk and minimal harm, protection and participation, respect and justice, consent

Ethical principles: Benefits

Benefits towards the individual participant, but also importantly the broader benefits of the research itself

Ethical principles: Harm

Needs to be minimized and non-existent

Participation

Rights include the right to be heard, have a voice on given issues — inclusion vs exclusion

Protection

Rights include laws where adults must safeguard children from harm and mitigate risk of any kind

Consent

Is given when there is an understanding and comprehension of the risks and benefits, voluntary participation and withdrawal

Gatekeepers

Research with children requires communication and collaboration with more people

Confidentiality

Researcher must find ways to promote the state of keeping or being kept secret or private

Privacy

Researcher must find ways to promote freedom from unauthorized intrusion

Anonymity

A researcher must find ways to promote unknown authorship or origin, not named or identified, lacking individuality and recognizability

Compensation

Awarding, typically with money, participants involved in the study recompense for participants’ time spent in the study

Scientific method

Uses statistical methods correlations, difference, experiments, questionnaires

Correlation

are the findings related to one another? statistical scientific method to show relationship between two variables

Difference

Are groups, when measured found to be statistically different?

Experiments

Can a causal effect be shown? Researcher specifies a hypothesis and tests it by manipulating one variable and measuring another

Mosaic approach

Uses a range of participatory visual methods, to build new understandings of young children’s views and experiences of early childhood environments

Benefits of Mosaic method

Understands children’s interests and concerns, understands how the involvement of children in planning spaces can be beneficial

Vignettes

Providing a hypothetical scenario which participant is invited to read and respond to and tell what a hypothetical person or they might do in that situation