Advancing ethical research with children: critical reflections on ethical guidelines

Abebe, Tatek; Bessell, Sharon

doi:10.1080/14733285.2013.856077

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“…Rather, considering what is known about the diversity of childhood and kinship, how life stages are socioculturally defined and experienced, and the structural forces that shape people's social positions can help researchers better address ethical principles from the start. This reflects Abebe and Bessell's (: 131) call for ‘the recognition of local ethos’ concerning children and families and, I add, recognition of young people's unique lived experiences and the structural forces they come up against that challenge their self‐determination.…”

Section: Ethics As Informed and Contextual Responsesmentioning

confidence: 75%

Desiring Self‐Determination in Research and Beyond: Parental Consent Requirements and Situated Ethics for Migrant Young People Living amid Changing Family Dynamics

Shaw

2018

Children & Society

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How are procedural research ethics complicit in homogenising and paternalising young people? Through a youth-centred ethnographic study completed in Canada, I illustrate how migrant young people's complex experiences of family separation, responsibility, and autonomy sit in relation to parental consent requirements for research. By complicating notions of childhood and critically discussing capacity to consent, I elucidate how procedural ethics can negate diversity among young people and perpetuate the structural barriers some face in determining their lives. More flexible ethical procedures and responses could reduce barriers and better accommodate young people's inclusion by recognising their specific circumstances, desires and competencies through heightened contextual awareness.

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Section: Ethics As Informed and Contextual Responsesmentioning

confidence: 75%

Desiring Self‐Determination in Research and Beyond: Parental Consent Requirements and Situated Ethics for Migrant Young People Living amid Changing Family Dynamics

Shaw

2018

Children & Society

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“…In this context, child participatory research approaches have received growing attention in recent decades; however, the voices of children with disability remain largely absent from research (Stafford, ). This absence is particularly evident in developing countries (Abede and Bessell, ; Singal, ) though a research base is slowly emerging (Don and others, ; Kembhavi and Wirz, ; Ngo and others, ; Nguyen and others, ; Singal, ; Wickenden and Kembhavi‐Tam, ). However, increased child participation in research cannot occur without attending to the methodological and ethical issues underpinning research design and research engagement with children in developing countries.…”

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The Principles and Ethics of Including Children with Disability in Child Research

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This paper provides a set of principles and ethics, developed in collaboration between Pacific‐ and Australian‐based researchers, to guide research practice in a project enabling the self‐reporting of children with disability in Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea (PNG). The paper presents both a summary of academic literature relating to these principles and ethics, as well as their succinct ‘translation’ into a set of action statements for researchers working with children with disability. The paper offers a base for further development by others to guide research practice and foster the autonomous participation of children with disability in developing countries.

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“…Considering the research ethics of working with child participants, which requires researchers to respect children's human dignity and human rights and to protect children from exploitation (e.g. Abebe and Bessell ; Bell ; Skelton ), I conducted interviews with children aged between six and ten with the help and observation of their parents and/or grandparents. For such interviews, I sought consent from both the children and their parents and allowed them to withdraw from the interview if they felt uncomfortable.…”

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Family‐based food practices and their intergenerational geographies in contemporary Guangzhou, China

Liu

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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Social geography research on familial spaces and intimate relations has generated valuable literatures on parenting and grand‐parenting in modern nuclear families. However, the complex intergenerational relations and geographies of multi‐generational households remain under‐researched, limiting geographers’ understanding of familial spatialities. This paper reports on research exploring intergenerational relationships through the lens of family‐based food practices in temporary three‐generational households of Guangzhou, the largest city in south China. It draws on five case studies with Xiaokang (middle‐level) households. It examines how intergenerational relations are performed through everyday food practices, exploring their geographies in terms of both domestic space and wider family geographies. The key arguments suggest that domestic spaces are significant to cultural transmission and transition and emotional communication across generations, and key sites for intergenerational segregation and integration.

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Advancing ethical research with children: critical reflections on ethical guidelines

Cited by 68 publications

References 14 publications

Desiring Self‐Determination in Research and Beyond: Parental Consent Requirements and Situated Ethics for Migrant Young People Living amid Changing Family Dynamics

Desiring Self‐Determination in Research and Beyond: Parental Consent Requirements and Situated Ethics for Migrant Young People Living amid Changing Family Dynamics

The Principles and Ethics of Including Children with Disability in Child Research

Family‐based food practices and their intergenerational geographies in contemporary Guangzhou, China

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