Fieldwork with Children

By: Robyn M Holmes

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Hardcover | 21 April 1998

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While there is an expanding literature of qualitative studies with children, there is relatively little that examines the actual fieldwork process with them. This book looks at fieldwork with children from a number of perspectives, and helps to address the needs of researchers working with children.

Robyn M. Holmes overviews the study of children in the early chapters, discussing basic methodology and considering the school as the primary site for studying children. In later chapters, she examines closely how a researcher's personal attributes, such as gender and ethnicity, can and do effect research with children.

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Fieldwork With Children: An Overview	p. 1
Subjective Issues	p. 4
Methods: Working With Children	p. 13
Access to Field Sites	p. 15
Establishing Rapport With the Children	p. 17
Interviewing Children	p. 22
Ethical Concerns	p. 24
School Organization and Culture	p. 31
Education	p. 32
School Culture as a Reflection of a Society's Cultural Ideology	p. 33
The United States	p. 35
Japan	p. 36
China	p. 40
School Personnel	p. 42
Researcher Interactions With School Personnel	p. 42
School Personnel and Gender	p. 44
School Culture	p. 44
Peer Culture	p. 49
Fieldwork and Gender	p. 53
Sex Differences	p. 55
Data Collection: Conducting Interviews	p. 61
Gender Identity	p. 63
Gender Segregation	p. 65
Access to Children's Cultures and a Fieldworker's Gender	p. 66
Fieldwork and Gender	p. 71
Fieldwork and Ethnicity	p. 83
American Society	p. 86
American Conceptions of Childhood	p. 86
Contemporary Views of Childhood	p. 88
American Culture, Individualism, and Fieldwork	p. 92
African American Culture	p. 95
East Indian Culture	p. 99
Japanese Culture	p. 102
How Researchers Represent Children	p. 108
Children as Primitive	p. 109
Children as Copycats	p. 110
Children as Personality Trainees	p. 110
Children as Monkeys	p. 110
Children as Critics	p. 111
Concluding Remarks	p. 113
References	p. 123
Index	p. 151
About the Author	p. 159
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