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- Title
DOING SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH WITH AND ABOUT CHILDREN IN ROMANIA: METHODOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL CHALLENGES.
- Authors
Savu, Dumitru-Alin; Lipan, Ștefan
- Abstract
This paper focuses on the involvement of children in social science research projects in Romania. It draws upon the authors' experience of doing anthropological research with and about children. Through ethnographic vignettes, we explore the challenges of involving children in social science research, and we describe the solutions we used to address them. The analysis follows closely different research stages and their methodological and ethical aspects, from negotiating access and obtaining informed consent to issues of confidentiality and intimacy, and establishing connections and communicating with children. We underline the importance of adjusting research methods and instruments in order to fit the child's needs and interests, and to allow for the child to play an active role in the development of the research process. Furthermore, through an overview of the legal framework in Romania and the EU, we show that in Romania there is still an important gap concerning the legal and ethical provisions regarding children involved in research activities.
- Subjects
SOCIAL science research; INFORMED consent (Law); CHILD research
- Publication
Romanian Journal of Society & Politics, 2018, Vol 13, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
1582-5795
- Publication type
Article