Children as co‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown. (25th November 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Donegan, Aoife; Devine, Dympna; Martinez‐Sainz, Gabriela; Symonds, Jennifer; Sloan, Seaneen
• Is Part Of: Children & society. Volume 37:Number 1(2023)
• Page Start: 235
• Page End: 253
• Publication Date: 2022-11-25
• Subjects: children -- Covid 19 -- education -- participation; Children -- Care and hygiene -- Periodicals; Child welfare -- Periodicals; Child welfare -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Children -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Child development -- Periodicals; 362.70941
• DOI: 10.1111/chso.12665
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0951-0605

Abstract

Abstract: This paper documents co‐participatory research with children in six primary schools in Ireland during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It explores the use of what we term digital dialogues with diverse groups of children aged 9–10 years as members of Child Research Advisory Groups. The paper conceptualises the digital dialogues as sites of resistance as well as constraint, empowering children to articulate their voices in relation to schooling and the pandemic, whilst mediated by power dynamics—between adults and children, and between children, in the articulation of those voices.