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Abstract
The academy has tended to marginalise young children as researchers, even in matters affecting them, which denies young children agency and amounts to social injustice. Drawing on the Young Children As Researchers (YCAR) study, which adopted a qualitative ‘jigsaw’ methodology to co-research with children aged 4-8 years (n=138), their parents, practitioners, and professional researchers, this article considers epistemological factors and epistemological categories that may support young children’s research behaviours in everyday activities. Those support structures are helpful in securing a warrant for recognising young children’s self-directed research on the academy’s terms. That recognition has potential to re-position young children away from the margins of research to an intrinsic position in research concerning matters that affect them, securing their rights as researchers. Such research can inform early childhood policy and practice in a deeply grounded manner that values young children as competent thinkers with expertise concerning their own lives.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 25:2 |
Pages (from-to) | 224-242 |
Journal | European Early Childhood Education Research Journal |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 24 Feb 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Jane Murray is Associate Professor and Co-Director at the Centre for Education and Research, University of Northampton, UK. She has published extensively on early childhood education and social inclusion, and is Editor of the International Journal of Early Years Education.Keywords
- Young Children as Researchers
- early childhood education
- epistemological categories
- epistemological factors
- jigsaw methodology
- marginalisation
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Prof Jane Murray
- University of Northampton, Childhood, Youth and Families - Professor of Education
- Centre for Education and Research
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Young children’s capability as researchers
Jane Murray (Speaker)
6 May 2015Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Seminar/Workshop › Research