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Danby2004
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Key Danby2004
Author(s) Susan Danby, Ann Farrell
Title Accounting for Young Children's Competence in Educational Research: New Perspectives on Research Ethics
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Tag(s) children, children competence, education, Australia, Ethics, Data management
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Year 2004
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Journal Australian Educational Researcher
Volume 31
Number 3
Pages 35–50
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DOI 10.1007/BF03249527
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Abstract

Educational researchers working with young children face ethical issues when researching the talk and interactions of young children. Issues around the competence of children to participate in research pose challenges to educational researchers and to the young participants and their families, within what are seen as increasingly risky and regulated research environments. This paper examines some of these issues in light of recent sociological perspectives that account for children as competent practitioners of their social worlds. Drawing on research investigating the governance of the lives of young children in Australia, we examine the rights of children to be both seen and heard as competent research participants. These sociological directions afford opportunities to reconsider the ethical issues around research with young children. Such an approach breaks new ground in early childhood education research.

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