Accountability through access, authenticity and advocacy when researching with young children

Cowie, Bronwen; Khoo, Elaine

doi:10.1080/13603116.2016.1260821

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“…It also includes creating opportunities for research that leads to action, such as youth-led participatory action research (Cammarota & Fine, 2008;Mitra & McCormick, 2017;Rodríguez & Brown, 2009) and collaborative action research. These forms of research see young people as "social actors and experts on their own lives" (Cowie & Khoo, 2017;Nelson, 2015), and institutions of secondary and tertiary education can collaborate to teach youth how to engage in such research (see Fine et al, 2004), And finally, the developent of student agency includes inviting students to author and co-author analyses of teaching and learning-claiming agency and capacity to name what they know and present it to a wider audience. Student voice and agency in schools-their ability to exert influence in their learning context, to transform their own and others' learning experiences, and to expand learning-does not aim to replace the presence and power of seasoned practitioners and certified professionals but rather "to legitimate alongside those experts the experiences, perspectives, and expertise of students" (Cook-Sather, 2014).…”

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Student voice across contexts: Fostering student agency in today’s schools

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2020

Theory Into Practice

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Student voice is a concept and a set of approaches that position students alongside credentialed educators as critics and creators of educational practice. Student voice and student agency are closely linked when school stakeholders connect the sound of students speaking with students having the power to influence analyses of, decisions about, and practices in schools. In this article I present an overview of forms of student voice work that support cultivating student agency in school spaces, in research on teaching and learning in those spaces, and in authoring publications about teaching and learning in those spaces. Drawing on empirical studies conducted in a range of contexts, the examples refer to students, teachers, administrators, and researchers working together to: analyze teaching and learning in ways that inform classroom practices; employ a wide variety of methodologies to engage in research that leads to action; and author and co-author analyses of practice and research that are guided by students' own interpretative frames as well as filled with their own words. Implications of this discussion include suggestions for teachers, school principals, teacher educators, and researchers regarding how to support student voice such that it fosters the developent of student agency.

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“…Numerous articles included in this review highlighted consent and assent as an ethical imperative when using digital data collection in research with minors [12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. Given the…”

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“…Touch interfaces, like a tablet, were also a way to enhance recruitment and consent possibilities as they tended to be intuitive to users and did "not add unnecessary complexity to the learning process" [17]. Cowie and Khoo [12] approached issues of consent when using digital data collection in research with minors whereby minors are recognized as social actors and experts in their own lives. To this end, they informed prospective minor participants of the research aims and processes using multiple strategies to support minors' decision to consent or dissent to participation in the research.…”

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“…To this end, they informed prospective minor participants of the research aims and processes using multiple strategies to support minors' decision to consent or dissent to participation in the research. They sent home a general newsletter about the study; created an interactive website about the study and research team for minors and their parents to view and discuss at home; and asked the minors' teachers to explain the research aims in school [12]. Cowie and Khoo emphasized that once consent or assent is obtained from a minor participant in any study, researchers should treat it as provisional, that is to say, "ongoing and dependent on researcher-researched and inter-participant relationships.…”

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“…. .built upon sensitivity, reciprocal trust and collaboration" [12]. Treating consent as provisional and ongoing necessitates that researchers assess participants' voluntariness at each point of contact and remind them of their right to withdraw their participation at any time [12].…”

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Exploring the ethical issues in research using digital data collection strategies with minors: A scoping review

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While emerging digital health technologies offer researchers new avenues to collect realtime data, little is known about current ethical dimensions, considerations, and challenges that are associated with conducting digital data collection in research with minors. As such, this paper reports the findings of a scoping review which explored existing literature to canvass current ethical issues that arise when using digital data collection in research with minors. Scholarly literature was searched using electronic academic databases for articles that provided explicit ethical analysis or presented empirical research that directly addressed ethical issues related to digital data collection used in research with minors. After screening 1,156 titles and abstracts, and reviewing 73 full-text articles, 20 articles were included in this review. Themes which emerged across the reviewed literature included: consent, data handling, minors' data rights, observing behaviors that may result in risk of harm to participants or others, private versus public conceptualizations of data generated through social media, and gatekeeping. Our findings indicate a degree of uncertainty which invariably exists with regards to the ethics of research that involves minors and digital technology. The reviewed literature suggests that this uncertainty can often lead to the preclusion of minors from otherwise important lines of research inquiry. While uncertainty warrants ethical consideration, increased ethical scrutiny and restricting the conduct of such research raises its own ethical challenges. We conclude by discussing and recommending the ethical merits of co-producing ethical practice between researchers and minors as a mechanism to proceed with such research while addressing concerns around uncertainty.

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Toward equitable and inclusive school practices: Expanding approaches to “research with” young people

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2022

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This commentary links child‐family research to the systematic inquiry approaches under the umbrellas of student voice and youth participatory action research. It reviews the underlying premises of the latter two bodies of work, including recognizing young people as knowers, partners, and change agents through conducting research with rather than on children and youth. It highlights how the articles included in this special issue challenge us to consider literacy not simply as a language competency but also as a life capacity that must be developed in relationship and in real, sometimes devastating, and always complex, human circumstances. The commentary concludes with a call to pursue multiple forms of literacy and linguistic justice through valuing young people's multilingual and multimodal linguistic practices, honoring their diverse forms of perception and expression, and recognizing the rich insights and recommendations for practice they provide to those who work in school contexts.

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Accountability through access, authenticity and advocacy when researching with young children

Cited by 14 publications

References 38 publications

Student voice across contexts: Fostering student agency in today’s schools

Student voice across contexts: Fostering student agency in today’s schools

Exploring the ethical issues in research using digital data collection strategies with minors: A scoping review

Toward equitable and inclusive school practices: Expanding approaches to “research with” young people

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