Doing Visual Research with Children and Young People

Image based research with children brings with it a specific set of possibilities and problems. Sometimes images are used to conduct research about children, sometimes children are asked to make images as data for adult researchers, while sometimes children and young people themselves use images to conduct their own research and/or represent their findings to others. This book explores the methodological, ethical, representational and theoretical issues surrounding image based research with children and young people. It provides well argued and illustrated resources to guide novice and experienced researchers through: (1) examining research conducted with children and young people, and research conducted by children and young people (2) including work with photography, multimedia, drawing and other art forms, and video and film-making (3) containing a balance of theoretical, methodological and empirical material Work with cameras, video, multimedia and drawing appeal to children and young people, since they live in image saturated worlds, but there are important debates about the possibilities of each medium, and difficult and important debates about authenticity', ownership, interpretation and anonymity. These debates are increasingly urgent at a time when digital production techniques make the production and reproduction of images increasingly easy and accessible. This edited collection, from an international body of researchers who are working at the forefront of this field, brings together the field of research with children and image based research. It focuses specifically on the use of visual research methods with children and young people. It will be an ideal guide for researchers both at undergraduate and post-graduate level across a range of disciples including education, youth and social work, health and nursing, criminology and community studies. It will also act an up-to-minute resource on this rapidly changing approach for practitioners working in the field.Thomson, Pat is the author of 'Doing Visual Research with Children and Young People' with ISBN 9780415431095 and ISBN 0415431093.