Does Mixed Methods Research Matter to Understanding Childhood Well-Being?

Jones, Nicola; Sumner, Andy

doi:10.1007/s11205-008-9311-y

Cited by 35 publications

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“…I revisited the action research sites and interviewed the participants (many now adults), staff from services and project workers, managers and commissioners who had been involved in the previous PARs. The revisits to conduct the critical inquiry took place during 2008-2009(leading to Johnson, 2010, 2011.…”

Section: The Research Methodology For the Revisitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some of the managers and staff, especially those from the government/ statutory regarded quantitative evidence as most useful to decision-making processes. They were often only convinced of the value of children's qualitative evidence from PARs if this was accompanied by some quantitative monitoring data or the use of mixed methods for research (as also suggested by Jones & Sumner, 2009). Some of the managers interviewed suggested that the most acceptable qualitative evidence was more structured and might include longitudinal case studies and proxy indicators.…”

Section: The Research Methodology For the Revisitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nevertheless, some examples exist of continued advocacy to further understand children's wellbeing as integral to a broader analysis of poverty, wellbeing and governance (e.g. Bartlett, 2001;Harper, Marcus, & Moore, 2003;Jones & Sumner, 2009;Williams, 2004).…”

Section: An Introduction To Child Rights and Voicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Moving beyond voice in children and young people’s participation

Johnson

2017

Action Research

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This paper introduces research that challenges decision-makers to listen to and act upon children and young people's evidence. Participatory Action Research (PAR) processes in Nepal and the UK in which children and young people participated were revisited in order to gain stakeholder perceptions on whether children and young people's evidence was valued. The paper focuses on the Nepalese participatory action research case revisited, but draws on critical analysis across the cases including whether they led to positive change at individual, organisational and societal levels. When decision-makers reflected on the processes revisited, it was when they inter-acted with children and young people that they started to value their knowledge. It is suggested that participatory action research could incorporate mechanisms that confront intergenerational relationships and power dynamics to alter perceptions of children and young people's roles and their evidence. These are embedded into a 'Change-scape' framework that emerged from these revisits, that links children and young people agency to the wider context of social change. This helps incorporate age as integral to inclusion and to see children and young people as critical to participatory democracy so their views are taken seriously in decision-making affecting their lives. The mechanisms suggested to include children and young people in processes that lead to transformational change include: creating participatory spaces and building dialogue and trust between children and young people and adults in participatory action research.

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Section: The Research Methodology For the Revisitsmentioning

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Moving beyond voice in children and young people’s participation

Johnson

2017

Action Research

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“…Qualitative research can 'capture complexity of family life in the sense of an ongoing stream of behaviour over long period of time that interweaves the perceptions of individuals with behaviours in relationships' (Wampler & Halverson, 1993, p.189), and produce rich data to provide a good understanding of the intra-household dynamics and/or social processes behind the numbers (Jones & Sumner, 2009). …”

Section: Methodology and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Parental Migration, Intergenerational Obligations and the Paradox for Left-Behind Boys in Rural China

Zhang

Chandola

Bécares

et al. 2016

Asian Population Studies

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Drawing on in-depth interviews with caregivers of left-behind children (LBC) in rural China, this article seeks to explore their understanding of migration motives and the social process of taking on care-giving roles for LBC. The authors argue that there are underlying socio-cultural explanations pertaining to economic motives for migration; such as, making contributions to social events (weddings and funerals) in village life, and fulfilling social obligations for left-behind sons' futures. Parents migrate to save for sons', but not daughters', adult lives. Grandparents, particularly on the paternal side, are expected to fulfil social obligations to care for left-behind grandchildren, even without immediate financial returns. These suggest that left-behind boys, and in particular boys cared for by paternal grandparents, may be at greater risk than other LBC, as they may receive even fewer resources in the form of remittances from migrant parents in their early childhood.

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“…However, this is just one approach, and is no guarantee that children's voices will be heard or heard equally. A child-sensitive approach can also be achieved by ensuring that children's needs and rights are represented by children's advocates -whether service providers, advocates, bureaucrats or researchers -in policy discourse and integrated into the development of new policies and policy and programme evaluations (Jones and Sumner, 2009). This chapter is structured as follows: Section 3.2 sets out thinking on the dynamics of policy processes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%