‘Baby Cam’ and Participatory Research with Infants: A Case Study of Critical Reflexivity

Sumsion, Jennifer; Bradley, Ben; Stratigos, Tina; Elwick, Sheena

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-01469-2_10

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“…As an area considered difficult to study before ready availability of digital visual technology (Johansson and White 2011;Sumsion et al 2014), researchers can now be closer to what Johansson (2011), p.43 referred to as the young child's "horizon". Using a video camera to continuously follow a focus child over a full day in the LDC site, researchers were well positioned to discover the numerous small everyday transitions that constantly occur for infants over a whole day.…”

Section: Video Observations Of Infants' Everyday Transitory Momentsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Visual narrative methodology in educational research with babies: triadic play in babies’ room

Ridgway

Quiñones

2016

Video J. of Educ. and Pedagogy

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This paper examines an experimental technique that uses visual narrative methodology and dialogue commentary to create an effective research methodology for a pilot project studying babies and toddlers in long day care centres and family contexts. Researchers from different cultural backgrounds using video technology, formed the team of chief investigators. One video clip was chosen to make independent descriptions, comments and interpretations of what was noticed. Later, initial visual narrative descriptions were shared and extended after reading one another's responses. This process created a dialogue commentary that enabled data overview, interpretative analyses and synthesis supported by snapshot moments taken from video clip. One aim of the project was to visually capture the cultural worlds and transitory relationships of babies and toddlers. Researchers showed the selected video clip separately to babies' room educator, centre director, and parents recording their responses. Using visual narrative methodology, dialogue commentary, and a shared cultural historical theoretical framework, revealed useful contradictions that raised social and cultural questions such as: How do educators recognize cultural worlds and transitory relationships of babies and toddlers? How are transitory moments related to pedagogically by educators? Integrating researchers' personal, cultural and affective responses, affords new critical cultural perspectives. This paper draws on screen capture snapshot moments from one video clip, taken from babies' pilot project data. These offer small windows into methodological approaches used to research the cultural world and transitory moments of three infants and their educator, located in the babies' room of an Australian long day care (LDC) site.

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Visual narrative methodology in educational research with babies: triadic play in babies’ room

Ridgway

Quiñones

2016

Video J. of Educ. and Pedagogy

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“…In line with the idea of a 'methodological attitude' that underpins participatory research, how a researcher sees children can determine their research practices with children and their choices in research design. For example, a result of the shift in belief of young children as active contributors to research processes has been the 'development and refinement' of creative methods (Dockett, Einarsdottir, & Perry, 2011, p. 68) that aim to gain infant and toddler perspectives using head mounted cameras (Sumsion, Bradley, Stratigos, & Elwick, 2014;Yoshida & Smith, 2008).…”

Section: Participatory Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethical symmetry in participatory research with infants

Salamon

2014

Early Child Development and Care

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Participatory research methods aim to break down the distinction between researchers and the researched. Infants are increasingly being seen as participants in research, but the nature of their participation is being questioned following an increased interest in participatory research with children. This article offers a perspective on participatory research that positions infant participants in ethically symmetrical ways to adult participants. It poses this can be achieved, when researchers adopt a methodological attitude that recognises, respects, and incorporates the active involvement of infants in research processes. Framed by the notion of 'ethical symmetry', the article draws on data from the author's doctoral work to demonstrate how attempts to achieve ethical symmetry were enacted. The importance of reciprocal and authentic relationships with infant participants as a driving force in the research is discussed, and implications for incorporating ethical symmetry in research with infants are discussed.

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“…The use of a multi-modal methodologies such as narrative inquiry and visual methodologies in intergenerational experiences of younger children acknowledges the many different ways the younger children and even the older adults can communicate to fully understand their lived experiences and shed light to relationships and interactions (Garvis & Pramling, 2017). Particular to listening to younger children's voices, the visual narrative methodology has been applied by a number of researchers to hear infants' and children's voices (Ridgway, Li, & Quinones, 2016;Sikder & Fleer, 2015;White, 2011;Sumsion et al, 2014). White (2015) has utilised this methodology and described it in length in her book titled Introducing Dialogic Pedagogy Provocations for the Early Years.…”

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Spaces for Transitions in Intergenerational Childhood Experiences

Oropilla¹

2020

Childhood Cultures in Transformation

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‘Baby Cam’ and Participatory Research with Infants: A Case Study of Critical Reflexivity

Cited by 13 publications

References 22 publications

Visual narrative methodology in educational research with babies: triadic play in babies’ room

Visual narrative methodology in educational research with babies: triadic play in babies’ room

Ethical symmetry in participatory research with infants

Spaces for Transitions in Intergenerational Childhood Experiences

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