The ‘voices’ of children: de‐centring empowering research relations
The ‘voices’ of children: de‐centring empowering research relations
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儿童的“声音”：去中心化的赋权研究关系
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2004
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L. Holt
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本文探讨了一些与儿童深入定性研究相关的有问题的方法和伦理问题。这一讨论对“农村”背景下的年轻人的定性研究产生了更广泛的共鸣。在对儿童进行研究时，会出现特殊的伦理问题，这是因为儿童在社会中相对无能为力。考虑到这一点，本文借鉴了一项针对小学儿童的实证研究，考虑了促进“赋权研究关系”的实质性策略。对身份和权力的重新理论化是支离破碎的、动态的和背景相关的，这表明研究是由特定的时刻或“研究表现”组成的。有人认为，发展授权研究关系涉及谈判这种表现，以挑战或改变儿童和成人之间占主导地位的社会关系。在这篇论文中，我考虑了我的研究中涉及的一些具体的、具体化的表现，以揭示空间中权力关系和谈判的一些复杂性。揭示特定时刻强调，儿童和成人之间的权力关系不能简化为无权者和强者。研究还表明，研究绩效受到社会和机构空间中对成人和儿童实践的期望的影响和制约，以及研究人员自身对主导身份的无意识再现。
This paper examines some problematic methodological and ethical issues associated with in‐depth qualitative research with children. The discussion has wider resonance for qualitative studies of young people in ‘rural’ contexts. Particular ethical issues arise when researching with children, which are underpinned by children's relative powerlessness in society. With this in mind, the paper considers substantive strategies to promote ‘empowering research relations’, drawing upon an empirical study with children in primary school spaces. Re‐theorisations of identities and power as fractured, dynamic and contextual, suggest that research is comprised of specific moments or ‘research performances’. It is argued that developing empowering research relations involves negotiating such performances in ways that contest, or transform, dominant societal relations between children and adults. In this paper, I consider some of the specific, embodied performances involved in my research, to expose some of the complexities of power relations and negotiations within space. Bringing to light particular moments emphasises that power relations between children and adults are not reducible to the powerless and the powerful. It is also demonstrated that research performances are influenced and constrained by expectations placed upon adult and child practices in society and institutional spaces, and by researchers' own unconscious reproduction of dominant identities.