scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

Doing Child-Centered Ethnography: Unravelling the Complexities of Reducing the Perceptions of Adult Male Power During Fieldwork

Emmanuel Mayeza
- 13 Jun 2017 - 
- Vol. 16, Iss: 1, pp 160940691771416
TLDR
In this article, the argument of getting around adult power in child-centered ethnographic research by presenting and discussing my experiences as a man researching with South African children is discussed. But the authors do not discuss their own experiences with children.
Abstract
In this article, I engage the argument of getting around adult power in child-centered ethnographic research by presenting and discussing my experiences as a man researching with South African chil...

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Learners’ perspectives on Life Orientation sexuality education in South Africa

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the views of male and female learners regarding how Life Orientation (LO) sexuality education is taught at their schools and found that learners in the study were selected from five former...
Journal ArticleDOI

Draw(Me) and Tell: Use of Children’s Drawings as Elicitation Tools to Explore Embodiment in the Very Young:

TL;DR: In this paper, the experience of children with particular bodily vulnerability is explored in the context of qualitative research with children as participants, and the results show that qualitative research is challenging on many levels: ethical, methodological, and relational.
Journal ArticleDOI

The Public Playground Paradox: "Child’s Joy" or Heterotopia of Fear?

TL;DR: The authors depicts children of the Global North withdrawing from public space to ‘acceptable islands’, driven by fears both of and for children, the public playground, one such island, provides c...
Journal ArticleDOI

Children’s Perspectives Toward Ability-Based Group Work in a Primary Classroom

TL;DR: In this paper, the findings from a study that explored children's interactions and their perceptions of working in groups in a primary classroom were reported. And they found that group work among children has been researched extensively in the literature.
Journal ArticleDOI

Critical Chinese as an additional language education in Australia: A journey to voices, courage and hope

TL;DR: The authors unpack a journey to voices, courage and hope of a cohort of socially, linguistically and economically disadvantaged students in Western Sydney, one of the most culturally diverse regions in the country.
References
More filters

The Subject and Power

TL;DR: The ideas which I would like to discuss here represent neither a theory nor a methodology as mentioned in this paper, but rather a history of different modes by which, in our culture, human beings are made subjects.
Journal ArticleDOI

The Subject and Power

Michel Foucault
- 01 Jul 1982 - 
TL;DR: The ideas which I would like to discuss here represent neither a theory nor a methodology as mentioned in this paper, but rather a history of different modes by which, in our culture, human beings are made subjects.
Journal ArticleDOI

Confession, catharsis, or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative research

TL;DR: Reflexivity is commonly used in qualitative research and has been posited and accepted as a method qualitative researchers can and should use to legitimize, validate, and question research practices and representations.
Journal ArticleDOI

Keeping and Using Reflective Journals in the Qualitative Research Process.

TL;DR: In this paper, reflective journals were used in engaging with the notion of creating transparency in the research process, and explore the impact of critical self-reflection on research design, and how reflective journals can have concrete effects on the research design.