Power and Voice in Research with Children

by Soto, Lourdes Diaz; Swadener, Beth Blue

• ISBN13: 9780820474144
• ISBN10: 0820474142
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-30
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

This volume critically examines issues of power and voice in research with children. Chapters focus on the relationship between researchers and children and explore how to more adequately represent the complexities, multiple perspectives, and understandin

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction	p. 1
Children make the best theorists	p. 9
Freedom speaks	p. 21
Confidence intervals : doing research with young children	p. 35
Relations, refractions, and reflections in research with children	p. 45
Coming home to research	p. 55
Culturally relevant pedagogy : 4Rs = bein' real	p. 77
Listening to the voices of Chinese immigrant girls	p. 89
Performing femininities through gender discourses	p. 105
Asian-American children developing voice	p. 117
Roma children : building "bridges"	p. 125
Kenyan street children speak through their art	p. 137
Bilingual border-crossing children's ideological becoming	p. 153
Voices of English language learners	p. 165
Bilingual children in literature discussions	p. 177
Children's retelling	p. 191
Los poetas	p. 205
Epilogue : when children and youth talk back : precocious research practices and the cleverest voices	p. 215
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