PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN RESEARCHING CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCE
Researching Children's Experience - Sheila Greene and Malcolm Hill
Methods and Methodological Issues
Researching `The Child' in Developmental Psychology - Diane Hogan
Researching Children and Childhood - Pia Christensen and Alan Prout
Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives
Ethical Considerations in Researching Children's Experiences - Malcolm Hill
PART TWO: METHODS FOR CONDUCTING RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN
Naturalistic Observations of Children in Their Families - Judy Dunn
An Ecological Approach to Naturalistic Observations of Children's Everyday Lives - Jonathan Tudge and Diane Hogan
Ethnographic Methods with Children and Young People - Ruth Emond
PART THREE: THE GENERATION AND ANALYSIS OF TEXT
Exploring Meaning through Interviews with Children - Helen Westcott and Karen Littleton
Interviewing Children Using an Interpretive Poetics - Annie Rogers
Analysing Children's Accounts using Discourse-Analysis - Pam Alldred and Erica Burman
Narrative Analysis of Children's Experience - Susan Engel
Phenomenological Approaches to Research with Children - Tom Danaher and Marc Briod
Exploring Children's Views through Focus Groups - Eilis Hennessy and Caroline Heary
Creative Methodologies in Participatory Research with Children - Angela Veale

`Strongly recommended as it provides a very useful overview of a range of methods, mainly textual, for exploring children's experiences. These accounts are placed well in the broader conceptual frameworks concerning both methodologies and ethical considerations' - Educational Review

How should the researcher approach the sensitive subject of the child? What are the ethical issues involved in researching children's experiences? In essays written by a collection of key, international authors, Researching Children's Experience addresses these questions, and examines up-to-date methodological and conceptual approaches to researching children. This book is a practical, comprehensive and interdisciplinary guide for advanced students and researchers, exploring a range of studies, and the theoretical and ethical motivations behind them.

The book is divided into three coherent sections:

- Conceptual, methodological and ethical issues in researching children's experiences.

- Methods for conducting research with children.

- The generation and analysis of text.

Researching Children's Experience provides examples of how researchers from a variety of social science perspectives have set about carrying out research into children's experience. Useful to students embarking on a research project, and to experienced researchers wishing to explore new methods, Greene and Hogan's book is an essential addition to anyone doing research on children. It will be especially useful to those in developmental psychology, education, nursing and other disciplines interested in studying children's experience.