Including children's voices in a multiple stakeholder study on a community-wide approach to improving quality in early years setting. Issue 9 (3rd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Martin, Shirley; Buckley, Lynn
• Is Part Of: Early child development and care. Volume 190:Issue 9(2020)
• Page Start: 1411
• Page End: 1424
• Publication Date: 2020-07-03
• Subjects: Early intervention -- participatory research with children -- photovoice; Child development -- Periodicals; Children -- Services for -- Periodicals; 155.405
• DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2018.1538135
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0300-4430

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article will explore the use of visual participatory research methods with young children. These methods have been utilized to add young children's voices to research on the impact of a quality improvement strategy in an early years' settings involved in a community-based prevention and early intervention programme. The main objective of the intervention programme is to measurably improve the lives of children (pre-birth to six years) and families through universal and targeted services in an urban community which experiences high levels of socio-economic deprivation. Children were offered the opportunity to share their views with the researchers through a variety of participatory rights-based approaches including drawing, photo-elicitation, photography, and conversations. Adding children's voices to the programme evaluation can help us to understand children's experiences and produces better policy and better services and also to interrogate the adult-centric quantitative data and adult perspectives generated in the ongoing project evaluation.