Getting under their skins? accessing young children's perspectives through ethnographic fieldwork

Childhood

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-53

  Warming, Hanne ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

children's perspectives; critical sociological empathy; ethnographic methodology; poststructuralism; young children

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751487174     PISSN: 09075682     EISSN: 14617013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0907568210364666     Document Type: Article

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