BARN3201 Participatory Methods and Ethics

The student has:

Knowledge

• in-depth knowledge of a range of participatory methods to engage children in different stages of a research process.
• knowledge on how to critically assess current scholarships on the social, moral, ethical and practical challenges of undertaking scientific research with children and young people.

Skills

• advanced skills in how to design and carry out rights-based, participatory research with children and young people in diverse settings and contexts.
• competence in ethical requirements and how to reflexively navigate new ethical dilemmas in research with children and young people.

General competence

• understanding of the connection between rights and research with children and young people.
• appraised the potentials and limits of participatory research and how to engage children and young people in collaborative knowledge production.

The course begins with an introductory lecture on perspectives and principles related to participatory research with children and young people. This is accompanied by a week-long training workshop that involves hands-on experience in engaging children and young people in different stages of the research process. The training workshop draws on a manual for participatory approaches and gives students the opportunity to develop a repertoire of methods and ethical strategies by means of concrete examples, as well as plenary and group discussions.

Additional lectures will be given by lecturers undertaking empirical studies with children in different parts of the world in order to exemplify the diversity and complexity of child-focused methods and ethics.

Total lecture hours: ca. 40.