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Welcome in! How the academy can warrant recognition of young children as researchers

Murray, J. (2017) Welcome in! How the academy can warrant recognition of young children as researchers. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. 25(2), pp. 224-242. 1350-293X.

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Abstract:
The academy has tended to marginalise young children as researchers, even in matters affecting them, which denies young children agency and amounts to social injustice. Drawing on the Young Children As Researchers (YCAR) study, which adopted a qualitative ‘jigsaw’ methodology to co-research with children aged 4-8 years (n=138), their parents, practitioners, and professional researchers, this article considers epistemological factors and epistemological categories that may support young children’s research behaviours in everyday activities. Those support structures are helpful in securing a warrant for recognising young children’s self-directed research on the academy’s terms. That recognition has potential to re-position young children away from the margins of research to an intrinsic position in research concerning matters that affect them, securing their rights as researchers. Such research can inform early childhood policy and practice in a deeply grounded manner that values young children as competent thinkers with expertise concerning their own lives.
Additional Information:
Jane Murray is Associate Professor and Co-Director at the Centre for Education and Research, University of Northampton, UK. She has published extensively on early childhood education and social inclusion, and is Editor of the International Journal of Early Years Education.
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300
Creators:
Murray, J.
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Education and Research
Research Centres > Centre for Education and Research
Date:
1 April 2017
Date Type:
Publication
Page Range:
pp. 224-242
Journal or Publication Title:
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
Volume:
25
Number:
2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1080/1350293X.2017.1288016
ISSN:
1350-293X
Status:
Published / Disseminated
Refereed:
Yes
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