Children and Youth Culture: Research Methods

Class

The course introduces the key concepts of social sciences qualitative research methods, as well as research tools employed by them, while focusing on four points:

• Introduction of features unique to qualitative (as opposed to quantitative) research approaches     

• Review of data collection and processing methods (also by using the internet)‏

• Questions of ethics

• Interviews with children (practical experience)

These are to be examined in light of issues unique to children and youth participation in academic research, such as children-adults hierarchy, children’s will to please adults and the option of having children partake in the actual research, to cite but few.