Research with children in rural China
Reflecting on the process
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21724735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shuang Wu (0000-0001-6875-4894, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland, New Zealand), Viviene E Cree (0000-0002-9995-1820, School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 897-913 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1473-3250 • E-ISSN: 1741-3117 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14733250211031959 |
| OpenAlex | W3178795316 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 48 |
Conducting research with children raises significant ethical and practical difficulties; when the context is rural China, where there has been no tradition of qualitative research with children, these become especially heightened. This article, written by a student and her supervisor, introduces a pilot study conducted in 2018 as part of a Master’s degree programme at a Scottish university. The study was designed to trial two child participatory methods with the aim of scaling these up in a full PhD project; the research focused on the experiences and needs of ‘left-behind children’ in a town of South-West China. The study threw up a number of challenges for the student which are explored in the article. Whilst not wishing to over-claim on the basis of a student project, we suggest that these highlight the reality that methodologies and ‘good practice’ guidelines developed in a ‘Western’/’minority world’ context may not always be wholly compatible with a very different research environment such as this one. This conclusion presents a significant challenge for all those who are conducting research with children in the ‘Global South’/’majority world’, as well as for those who are supporting research students who may experience similar dilemmas in the ‘real world’ of research
China · Citizen journalism · Medical education · Participatory action research · Pedagogy · Political science · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Children's Rights and Participation · History · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
Ethics and Values in Social Work
Emotional and behavioral problems of Chinese left-behind children
In Defense of Being “Native”
Case Study Research
Participation, Rights and ‘Participatory’ Methods
Contemporary Youth Research
Conversations About Reflexivity
Conducting research with young children
Making meaning
Research With Children
Parental migration and smoking behavior of left-behind children
The impact of parental migration on health status and health behaviours among left behind adolescent school children in China
Food preferences, personality and parental rearing styles
Nutrition knowledge, attitudes, behaviours and the influencing factors among non-parent caregivers of rural left-behind children under 7 years old in China
An Ontological Turn for Childhood Studies
Peer relationships of left-behind children in China moderate their loneliness
Empowering Children Left Behind in China
Enhancing the capacity of kin caregivers and their families to meet the needs of children left behind
Children, Mobility, and Space
Exploring children and young people's relationships across Majority and Minority Worlds
Sandplay, Clay and Sticks’
Well‐being of migrant and left‐behind children in C hina
Research with children
Migration, remittances, and children's high school attendance
Participatory action research (PAR) with children and youth
Intergenerational differences in beliefs about healthy eating among carers of left-behind children in rural China
Understanding and implementing child participation
The psychological and behavioral outcomes of migrant and left-behind children in China
Children's Work
Pathways to participation
Children's participation and intergenerational dialogue
Ask us too! Doing participatory research with disabled children in the global south
Combatting Child Labour
Methodological Immaturity in Childhood Research
Research with children
Decolonizing Methodologies
Multiple methods in qualitative research with children
Differentiated childhoods
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |