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Ethical issues in the research with children

The perspective of ‘children as social actors’ has created a field with new ethical dilemmas and responsibilities for researchers within the early childhood education. According to experiences of conducting ethnographic video studies in mixed age kindergarten groups, this paper reflects on the processes of negotiating initial and ongoing consent, problematizes the notion of ‘informed’ consent in exploratory research with young children, and considers questions of anonymity when collecting and reporting on visual data. The paper proposes that by adopting a flexible, reflective stance, researchers can learn much from children about their perspectives and the inclusion of young children in the research process.

research with children; ethics; consent; anonymity

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