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Research with Children and Youth Seminar, Fall 2019

Research with Children and Youth
Roger Hart

Wednesdays 4.15pm to 6.15pm
Fall, 2019
3 credits

This seminar is designed for students who wish to design research involving children, childhood or youth or are already in the process of doing so. It is aligned with the growing interdisciplinary field of childhood and youth studies. Students from psychology, the social sciences, education and the humanities are invited to participate. We will work collectively by rotating discussion around each participant’s research. Seminar participants may be at the very earliest stage of conceptualizing their work, still defining their question, already in the process of designing methods, or even beginning to interpret their findings. Your project may range from an in-depth literature review, through archival research to empirical research, or any combination of these. At all stages, there is great value in gaining a perspective from across disciplines. It commonly results in enriching the research by combining different disciplinary perspectives within a single study or transcending disciplinary knowledge through a new integration of theory and method. Either way, it deepens one’s research endeavor. An additional component of the seminar will be to ask how our research might be differently conceptualized given different possible audiences and end goals, including research that is primarily focused on theory-building, on influencing policy or on action, involving more immediate change. Again, this is based in the belief that a research project need not be limited to only one of these orientations.