Building a method for researching attribution of meaning by children aged 5 to 6 in school

Listening to Young Children’s Voices: The Evaluation of a Coding System

“…Based on the data of the exploratory study we started to build a coding system in Kwalitan, following the basic assumptions of the grounded theory approach (Glaser & Strauss, 1967;Strauss & Corbin, 1998;Tertoolen et. al., 2012).…”

“…We explored the concept of young children's voices, and formulated indicators for the construct of voice and attribution of meaning. We carried out five case studies, and we set the first steps in developing a coding system for analyzing elements of young children's voices (Tertoolen, van Oers, Geldens & Popeijus, 2012). In the present article we describe a new step in our research, in which we are dealing with the issues of validity and reliability of our coding system.…”

Young Children about School: Whose Voices Do We Hear?

“…Our research method consisted of a qualitative-interpretative approach in a flexible design. For triangulation reasons, we used multiple sources of evidence in our five case-studies (Robson, 2011;Tertoolen, van Oers, Geldens & Popeijus, 2012;Yin, 2009). We considered each of our cases as a separate study, enabling us to investigate the dynamics of the specific context in which each child, aged 5-6, is involved.…”

“…We finally selected the expressions with codes, related to the indicators 3 and 4. We have chosen these expressions, as the indicators 3 and 4 provide the most outspoken indications for expressing voice and attribution of meaning (Kjørholt, 2005;Mayall, 2008;Tertoolen et al, 2012). We then had to compare the list of children's leading expressions with the list of teacher's and parent's expressions, to find out whether correspondences -to some extent -existed between the expressions of the children and adults within our case-studies.…”