METHODS

How do we go about studying children?

Christensen, Pia, and Allison James (Eds.). 2000. Research with Children: Perspectives and Practices. New York: Falmer Press.

Eder, Donna, and William Corsaro. 1999. “Ethnographic Studies of Children and Youth: Theoretical and Ethical Issues.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 28: 520-531.

Fine, Gary Allan, and Kent L. Sandstrom. 1988. Knowing Children: Participant Observation with Minors. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Graue, Elizabeth, and Daniel Walsh (Eds.). 1998. Studying Children in Context: Theories, Methods, and Ethics. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Kundanis, Rose M. 1996. “‘Baby Riots’ and ‘Eight-Hour Orphans’: A Comparison of the Images of Child Care in British and U.S. Popular Magazines during World War II.” Women’s Studies International Forum 19: 239-251.

Mandel, Nancy. 1988. "The Least-Adult Role in Studying Children." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 16: 433-467.

Modell, John. 1996. “The Uneasy Engagement of Human Development and Ethnography.” Pp. 479-504 in Ethnography and Human Development, edited by Richard Jessor, Anne Colby, and Richard Shweder. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Qvortrup, Jens. 1997. “A Voice for Children in Statistical and Social Accounting: A Plea for Children’s Right to be Heard.” Pp. 85-106 in Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood, edited by Allison James and Alan Prout. London: Falmer Press.

Solberg, Anne. 1996. “The Challenge in Child Research: From Being to Doing.” Pp. 53-65 in Children in Families: Research and Policy, edited by Julia Brannen and Margaret O’Brien. London: Falmer Press.

Thorne, Barrie. 1993. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Chapter 2, “Learning From Kids.”

Waksler, Frances C. (Ed.). 1991. Studying the Social Worlds of Children: Sociological Readings. New York: Falmer Press.