Participant observation: A way to learn about children’s perspectives

Beyond Listening: Children's Perspectives on Early Childhood Services

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 51-70

  Warming, Hanne ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925695039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (58)

1. Adler, P. and Adler, P. (1987) Membership roles in field research: Qualitative research methods series (Volume Six), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2. Alderson, P. (2000) ‘Children as researchers’, in P. Christensen and A. James (eds) Research with children: Perspectives and practices, London: RoutledgeFalmer, pp 241-57.
3. Alanen, L. (2001) ‘Explorations in generational analysis’, in L. Alenen and B. Mayall (eds) Conceptualising child-adult relations, London: RoutledgeFalmer, pp 11-22.
4. Atkinson, P. and Coffey, A. (2000) ‘Revisiting the relationship between participant observation and interviewing’, in J.F. Gubrium and J.A. Holstein (eds) Handbook of interview research: Context and method, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, pp 801-14.
5. Atkinson, P. and Hammersley, M. (1998) ‘Ethnography and participant observation’, in N.K. Denzin and Y.S. Lincoln (eds) Strategies of qualitative inquiry, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, pp 110-13.
6. Bech-Jørgensen, B. (1990) ‘What are they doing, when they seem to do nothing?', in J. Ehrnrooth and L. Siurala (eds) Construction youth, Helsinki: WAPKPublishing.
7. Bech-Jørgensen, B. (1994) Når hver dag bliver hverdag (When every day becomes everyday), Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.
8. Bo, I.G. and Warming, H. (2004) ‘Recognizing the power of recognition - different practices in social work with children and youth’, Revised edition of paper presented at ISA’s RC26 Conference ‘Social Capital and Social Trasformation in the Age of Globalization’, Lesvos, 11-14 June.
9. Bourdieu, P. (1990) The logic of practice, Cambridge: Polity Press.
10. Bourdieu, P. (1992) An invitation to reflexive sociology, Cambridge, Oxford: Polity Press.
11. Bourdieu, P. (1998) Practical reason: On the theory of action, Cambridge: Polity Press.
12. Bourdieu, P. (1999) The weight of the world: Social suffering and impoverishment, Cambridge: Polity Press.
13. Burr, V. (1995) An introduction to social constructionism, London: Routledge.
14. Chia, R. (1996) ‘The problem of reflexivity in organizational research: towards a post-modern science of organization’, Organization, vol 3, pp 31-59.
15. Christensen, P. and James, A. (eds) (2000) Research with children, London:RoutledgeFalmer.
16. Clark, A. (2004) ‘The Mosaic approach and research with young children’, in V. Lewis, M. Kellett, C. Robinson, S. Fraser and S. Ding (eds) The reality of research with children and young people, London: Sage Publications, pp 142-61.
17. Clark, A., McQuail, S. and Moss, P. (2003) Exploring the field of listening to and consulting with young children, Research Report 445, London: DfES.
18. Corsaro, W. (1985) Friendship and peer culture in the early years, Norwood, NJ:Ablex.
19. Corsaro, W. (1992) ‘Interpretive reproduction in children’s peer cultures’, Social Psychology Quarterly, no 55, pp 160-77.
20. Corsaro, W. (1993) ‘Interpretive reproduction in children’s role play’, Childhood, vol 1, no 1, pp 64-74.
21. Corsaro, W. (1997) The sociology of childhood, Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
22. Corsaro, W. and Molinari, L. (2000) ‘Entering and observing in children’s worlds’, in P. Christensen and A. James (eds) Research with children, London:RoutledgeFalmer, pp 179-200.
23. Czarniawska, B. (1998) A narrative approach to organization studies, Qualitative Research Methods Series 43, Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications.
24. Danmarks Statistik (2004) Danmark i tal (Denmark in numbers), Copenhagen:Danmarks Statistik.
25. Danmarks Statistik (2005) ‘Pasningsgaranti’ (‘Day care guarantee’) (www.dst.dk/pasningsgaranti).
26. Eder, D. (1991) ‘The role of teasing in adolescent peer grooup culture’, Sociological Studies of Child Development, vol 4: Perspectives on and of children, pp 181-97.
27. Foucault, M. (1979) The history of sexuality: An introduction, London: Allen Lane.
28. Foucault, M. (1986) The history of sexuality: The use of pleasure, London: Viking.
29. Foucault, M. (1988) The history of sexuality: The care of self, London: Vintage Books.
30. Foucault, M. (1997) Madness and civilization: A history of insanity in the age of reason, London: Routledge.
31. Geertz, C. (1984) ‘From the native’s point of view’, in A. Shweder and R.A. LeVine (eds) Culture theory: Essays on mind, self and emotion, Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, pp 123-36.
32. Goffman, E. (1971a) Asylums: Essay on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
33. Goffman, E. (1971b) Relations in public: Micro studies of the public order, London:Allen Lane.
34. Goffman, E. (1986) Frame analysis: An essay on the organization of experience, Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press.
35. Goffman, E. (1990) The presentation of self in everyday life, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
36. Gubrium, J.F. and Holstein, J.A. (1997) The new language of qualitative method, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
37. Hastrup, K. (1995) A passage to anthropology: Between experience and theory, London:Routledge.
38. James, A. (1996) ‘Learning to be friends. Methodological lessons from participant observation among English schoolchildren’, Childhood, vol 3, pp 313-30.
39. James, A., Jenks, C. and Prout, A. (1998) Theorizing childhood, Cambridge: Polity Press.
40. Jensen, A.M., Ben-Arieh, A., Conti, C., Kutsar, D., Nic Ehiolla Prádraig, M. and Nielsen, H.W. (eds) (2004) Children’s welfare in ageing Europe, Vol I & II, Tartu:Tartu University Press.
41. Jensen, J.J. and Hansen, H.K. (2003) ‘The Danish pedagogues - a worker for all ages’, Children in Europe, no 5, pp 6-9.
42. Kampmann, J. and Nielsen, H.W. (2004) ‘Socialized childhood: children’s childhoods in Denmark’, in A.M. Jensen, A. Ben-Arieh, C. Conti, D. Kutsar, M. Nic Ehiolla Prádraig and H.W. Nielsen (eds) Children’s welfare in ageing Europe, Vol I & II, Tartu: Tartu University Press.
43. Korintus, M. and Moss, P. (2004) ‘Work with young children: a case study of Denmark, Hungary and Spain’ (available at www.ioe.ac.uk/teru/carework.htm).
44. Kvale, S. (1995) ‘The social constructoin of validity’, Qualitative Inquiry, vol 1, no 1, pp 19-40.
45. Lov om Social Service (Law about Social Service), revised December 2004 (www.minft.dk/1/lovservice/2004-l34-l75-l120-l121/1).
46. Mandell, N. (1991) ‘The least-adult role in studying children’, in F.C. Waksler (ed) Studying the social worlds of children: Sociological readings, London: Falmer Press, pp 38-59.
47. Mayall, B. (2000) ‘Conversations with children: working with generational issues’, in P. Christensen and A. James (eds) Research with children, London:RoutledgeFalmer, pp 120-35.
48. Moss, P. and Petrie, P. (2002) From children’s services to children’s spaces: Public policy, children and childhood, London: RoutledgeFalmer.
49. Nielsen, H.W. (2001) ‘Børn i medvind og modvind: en relational analyse af børns livtag med livet i det refleksivt moderne’ (‘Children facing support and opposition: a relational analysis of children’s struggles in their everyday life in the reflexive modern society’), PhD thesis nr 27/2001, PhD series ‘Comparative welfare systems’, Roskilde University [the thesis is in Danish, but there is an abstract in English].
50. Opie, I. and Opie, P. (1982) ‘The lore and language of schoolchildren’, in C. Jenks (ed) The sociology of childhood - Essential readings, London: Batsford, pp 173-80.
51. Opie, I. and Opie, P. (1991) ‘The culture of children 1: Introduction’ and ‘The culture of children 2: Half-belief ', in F.C. Waksler (ed) Studying the social worlds of children: Sociological readings, London: Falmer Press, pp 123-44.
52. Richardson, L. (2000) ‘Writing: a method of inquiry’, in N.K. Denzin and Y.S. Lincoln (eds) Handbook of qualitative research (2nd edn), London: Sage Publications, pp 923-43.
53. Sacks, H. (1991) ‘On the analysability of stories by children’, in F.C. Waksler (ed) Studying the social worlds of children: Sociological readings, London: Falmer Press, pp 195-215.
54. Sutton, J., Smith, P. and Swettenham, J. (2004) ‘Social cognition and bullying:social inadequacy or skilled manipulation?', in V. Lewis, M. Kellett, C. Robinson, S. Fraser and S. Ding (eds) The reality of research with children and young people, London: Sage Publications, pp 44-60.
55. Thorne, B. (1993) Gender plan: Girls and boys in school, New Brunswick, NJ:Rutgers University Press.
56. Warming, H. (2003) ‘The quality of life from a child’s perspective’, International Journal of Public Administration, vol 26, no 7, pp 815-29.
57. Warming, H. (2005) Har andre plejebørn det som mig? (Do other children in foster care feel the same way as I do?), Copenhagen: Frydenlund.
58. Warming, H. and Kampmann, J. (2005) ‘Children in command of time and space?', in H. Zeiher, H. Strandell, D. Devine and A.T. Kjørholt (eds) Children’s times and space: Changes in welfare in an intergenerational perspective, Odense:Syddansk Univeritetsforlag.