Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Am J Community Psychol. 2010 Sep;46(1-2):195-203. doi: 10.1007/s10464-010-9324-y.
The concept of children as researchers has gained credence in response to changing perspectives on their status in society, recognition of their role as consumers and increased attention to children's rights. While this has led to greater involvement of children as participant and co-researchers, research led by children-research they design, carry out and disseminate themselves with adult support rather than adult management-is still relatively rare. Children designing and leading their own research opens up new protagonist frontiers. Children are party to the subculture of childhood which gives them a unique "insider" perspective critical to our understanding of their worlds. Child-to-child enquiry generates different data from adult-to-child enquiry because children observe with different eyes, ask different questions and communicate in fundamentally different ways. This paper explores some of the issues in empowering children as active researchers and draws on theory relating to participation, empowerment, voice and emancipation. Its primary focus is to celebrate and value children's own research and includes the full text of an original research study by an 11-year-old girl.
儿童作为研究者的概念已经得到认可，这是对他们在社会中地位的变化、对他们作为消费者的角色的认识以及对儿童权利的日益关注的回应。虽然这导致了更多的儿童作为参与者和共同研究者的参与，但由儿童主导的研究——他们自己设计、开展和传播的研究，而不是由成人管理的研究——仍然相对较少。儿童设计和领导自己的研究开辟了新的主角前沿。儿童是童年亚文化的一部分，这使他们具有独特的“内部人”视角，这对我们理解他们的世界至关重要。儿童与儿童之间的探究与成人与儿童之间的探究产生不同的数据，因为儿童用不同的眼光观察、提出不同的问题，并以根本不同的方式进行交流。本文探讨了赋予儿童积极研究者的一些问题，并借鉴了与参与、赋权、声音和解放有关的理论。它的主要重点是庆祝和重视儿童自己的研究，并包括一篇由 11 岁女孩撰写的原始研究报告的全文。
