Ethics and Research with Young Children: New Perspectives

As researchers and theorists, teachers and teacher educators, parents and grandparents and advocates for children, the authors featured in Ethics and Research with Young Children share a common inclination to counter the idea of an ethics that is conventional-i.e., an ethics that reinforces existing models and discourses, which position children as irrational and incompetent; that de-anonymize children's ways of working and being in the world; that reduces and distorts the social, cultural and political forces that shape children's everyday realities; and, that routinely subtracts from these realities the complex responsibilities that adults have (especially as researchers) to recognize ethics as situated, relational, intersectional, and provisional. Aligned with the interdisciplinary commitments of a Childhood Studies approach and informed by a range of theoretical and practical frameworks, the perspectives offered in this volume are grounded in relationships between and among adults and children, their shifting social, cultural, political and material realities, and a world of ideas and experiences that impel them to face and reorient their ethical commitments to each other.

Table of Contents:
Introduction, Christopher M. Schulte 1. Rethinking Informed Consent with Children under the Age of Three, Margaret Coady and Kylie Smith 2. Ethics as Play in Aesthetic Encounters with Young Children, Melissa Freeman 3. Drawing Together: Towards a Relational Ethics of Ignorance, Hayon Park 4. Wool Works, Cat's Cradle, and the Art of Paying Attention, Sylvia Kind 5. Playing 'School' at Home: Towards an Ethics of Pliability in Parental Play, Christopher M. Schulte 6. Working with Children in the Spaces Between, Shana Cinquemani 7. Cultivating Epistemic Modesty in Research with Children, Christine Marmé Thompson 8. Don't Forget to Show Them This One! Post-Qualitative Potentials in Research with Young Children, Marissa McClure 9. Becoming a 'Mutated Modest Witness' in Early Childhood Research, Jayne Osgood 10. The Cucumber Party: Parenting with a Posthumanist Ethics of Care, Laura Trafí-Prats 11. Pondering the Pond: Ethical Encounters with Children, Bronwyn Davies 12. Questions of New Materialist Ethics, Heather Kaplan 13. Quantum Ethics: Intra-Actions in Researching with Children, Leslie Rech Penn 14. Thing-Power-Child Entanglements: A Resituated Ethics of Research with Young Children, Sonja Arndt and Marek Tesar 15. Finding Revolution in the Murmurations of Deep and Simple, Jaye Johnson Thiel 16. (Non)sensical Literacies, (Non)sensical Relationships, Candace R. Kuby and Tara Gutshall Rucker Index

About the Author :
Christopher M. Schulte is an Endowed Associate Professor of Art Education in the School of Art at the University of Arkansas, USA.

Review :
An exciting and important contribution to the study of ethics as it pertains to working with young children, this monograph brings together international scholars with a deep commitment to seeing young children as social actors, contributors, and collaborators in matters of research. A must read for researchers and graduate students! An adventurous and insightful exploration of the ethical issues that manifest in research with children and young people. Rather than a more mechanistic treatment of these issues, it offers the reader a chance to consider in-depth a range of diverse perspectives on complex ethical themes.