Interrupting Listening to Children: Researching with Children's Secret Places in Early Childhood Settings. Issue 2 (June 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Moore, Deborah
• Is Part Of: Australasian journal of early childhood. Volume 39:Issue 2(2014)
• Page Start: 4
• Page End: 11
• Publication Date: 2014-06
• Subjects: Early childhood education -- Periodicals; Child care services -- Periodicals; Early childhood education -- Australasia -- Periodicals; Child care services -- Australasia -- Periodicals; Child development -- Periodicals; Child care services; Child development; Early childhood education; Australasia; Periodicals; 372.21
• DOI: 10.1177/183693911403900202
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1836-9391

Abstract

THIS PAPER EXAMINES A definitive turning point in an early childhood research study involving children's construction of secret places juxtaposed against the challenge of authentically researching with children. The study was a qualitative case study theoretically positioned within the sociology of childhood. It used child-based research methods and participatory tools from the Mosaic Approach. A dramatic shift in the study occurred when the author realised that to move beyond the dominant discourse of past paradigms required an interruption to the methodological approach of adult-contrived interviews to an approach of listening to but not fully knowing children.