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Mauthner, Melanie – Children & Society, 1997
Uses three specific studies to analyze methods of data collection from children, including participant observation, focus groups, interviews, and structured activities. Points out the effective and ineffective aspects of each method, and deals with methodological issues such as parental consent, access to children, privacy, and confidentiality.…
Descriptors: Children, Data Collection, Focus Groups, Interviews
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Hood, Suzanne; And Others – Children & Society, 1996
Uses an exploratory study, "Children, Parents and Risk," to examine some ethical and methodological issues specific to child-focused research. Focuses on gatekeepers who control access to parents and children, and on the interview process, asserting that the research process itself constitutes an important source of data on models of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Children, Data Collection, Ethics