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This collection explores leading values and concepts in global
child-based research through the lens of reflexivity. The book
considers issues such as the identities and roles of researchers,
as well as the burdens, boundaries, and ethical frameworks which
govern their activities. Using empirical examples from Israel,
India, Thailand, and England, expert contributors discuss a range
of topics including online safety, disabilities, gang membership,
safeguarding, sexting, and child prostitution. This book guides
childhood research towards a more reflexive debate that critically
challenges conventions, and highlights plurality of voice.
Experts in childhood studies make the case for greater reflexivity
in child-based research in this thought-provoking collection. With
an international outlook and real-world examples, they explore the
identities and roles of researchers, as well as the burdens,
boundaries and ethical frameworks which govern their activities,
considering themes including online safeguards and sex-related
issues, to challenge conventions and improve research standards.
This book reflects on the contemporary use of ethnography across
both social and natural sciences, focusing in particular on
organizational ethnography, autoethnography, and the role of
storytelling. The chapters interrogate and reframe longstanding
ethnographic discussions, including those concerning reflexivity
and positionality, while exploring evolving themes such as the
experiential use of technologies. The open and honest accounts
presented in the volume explore the perennial anxieties, doubts and
uncertainties of ethnography. Rather than seek ways to mitigate
these 'inconvenient' but inevitable aspects of academic research,
the book instead finds significant value to these experiences.
Taking the position that collections of ethnographic work are
better presented as transdisciplinary bricolage rather than as
discipline-specific series, each chapter in the collection begins
with a reflection on the existing impact and character of
ethnographic research within the author's native discipline. The
book will appeal to all academic researchers with an interest in
qualitative methods, as well as to advanced undergraduate and
postgraduate students.
An increasing interest in children's lives has tested the ethical
and practical limits of research. Rather than making tricky ethical
decisions, transparent researchers tend to gloss over stories that
do not fit with sanitized narratives. This book aims to fill this
gap by making explicit the lived experiences of research with
children.
This book advances social scientific interest in a field long
dominated by the humanities: stories, and storytelling. Stories are
a whole lot more than entertainment; oral narratives, novels, films
and immersive video games all form part of the sociocultural
discourses which we are enmeshed in, and use to co-construct our
beliefs about the world around us. Young children use them to learn
about the world beyond their immediate sensory experience and, even
in an era of interactive electronic media, the bedtime story
remains a cherished part of most children’s daily routine.
Storytelling is thus the first abstract formal learning method we
encounter as human beings. It is also probably transcultural;
perhaps even an immanent part of the human condition. Narratives
are, at heart, sequences of events and presuppose and reinforce
particular cause-and-effect relationships. Inevitably, they also
construct unconscious biases, prejudices, and discriminatory
attitudes. Storying (a term we use in this book to encompass
stories, storytellers and storytelling) is complex, and this book
seeks to make sense of it.Â
Returning to Woodmere after Becca's high school graduation in
California, Autumn discovers restoring friendships is more
difficult than making them. In the small Minnesota town, where
knowing everything is everyone's business, a surprisingly small
amount of truth is actually known. When the past becomes the
present, more than one life is in danger. Will Autumn gain Craig
and Kenzie's trust in time, or will she be Taken in the Woods?
Just after her seventeenth birthday during winter break, Autumn and
her sister receive an announcement from their parents. They are
moving back to the Midwest, to a Minnesota town not even large
enough to earn a dot on the map. Woodmere is where people have
grown up together for generations. It is a town full of gossips and
busybodies making sure secrets don't remain private for long.
Memories from her stolen childhood are unlocked during what should
have been a routine move. Autumn finds herself suddenly faced with
a past she wishes could be forgotten again. A past filled with
events she hasn't told anyone. The man she fears is now only hours
away. In an attempt to hide, Autumn becomes the person she didn't
know she could be. Finds the strength she didn't know she had. In
Woodmere, Autumn discovers she isn't the only one with secrets.
This thesis was a four year long personal exploration into the
question of Creative Block or Artist's Block which hindered Sarah
Richards from engaging with her creative process. Her intention was
to create a workshop, facilitated in a natural environment, to
assist the creatively blocked artist re-engage with their creative
process. Firstly, to assist with this research, it was essential to
establish what the cause of artist's block could be and to gain
more knowledge about the creative process itself. Sarah engaged in
research to assess the possible effects of how the natural
environment could help this process. Facilitation skills for this
workshop are also highlighted in this thesis as essential skills
for facilitating the workshops successfully. Finally to asses the
validity of the data and the effect of the theories discussed,
workshops were facilitated and assessed by the author.
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