The Academic Events Group, 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION

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How Do Children Research? Hearing the Children's Voices During the Research Process!
Neslihan AVCI, Arzu AKAR GENÇER

Last modified: 2017-03-03

Abstract


Attention should be paid to taking the views of children in deciding on their participation in the research process. The Committee on the Rights of the Child (2009) states in General Comment no. 12 that all the processes in which children are listened and participated should carry qualifications. Everyone involved in the research needs to benefit from the same ethical principles. A "symmetrical approach" should be adopted for all principles, from informing children about research to implementing participatory methods for children (Morrow & Richards, 1996) (Christensen & Prout, 2002). In this study, it is aimed to listen to children's voices and announce their voices to research processes. In addition, involvement of children in research processes has also been a major goal of the study, including thinking about participatory methods in childhood research, such as how children seek research. While working on participatory methods, it was aimed to investigate children's views on their research processes regarding the development of children, their needs and their needs. The data of the research as the basic qualitative study were collected through semi-structured interviews. Seven male and seven female children were selected by participant sampling method and appropriate sampling and snowball sampling techniques. The data were analyzed and analyzed through content analysis. According to the opinions of the children involved in the research, it was seen that most of them wanted to participate in the research, they wanted to approach them positively in the research process, and they had different expressions according to the interests and interests of the children.  It is thought that taking the ideas of the children in the research process is important in terms of ensuring the participation of the children.