TY - JOUR
T1 - Researcher-child relations in Indian educational settings
AU - Chawla-Duggan, Rita
AU - Wikeley, Felicity
AU - Konantambigi, Rajani
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - The article discusses how the use of ethnographic approaches to the study of researcher-child relations highlights the importance of structures that shape and define children's actions. The discussion is illustrated by using case study material from research with pre-school and pre-adolescent children in Indian educational settings. The article argues that whilst an ethnographic approach to understanding children can shed light upon how childhood as a structural classification of society, and in particular Indian society, is governed by its relationship with the adult world; attempts to provide explanations of childhood as a structural feature, necessitate an account of the age of children as a structural condition. Children's relationships with the adult world are quite different at different ages. This has implications for the educational ethnographer when attempting to gather data that provide understandings of children's social actions.
AB - The article discusses how the use of ethnographic approaches to the study of researcher-child relations highlights the importance of structures that shape and define children's actions. The discussion is illustrated by using case study material from research with pre-school and pre-adolescent children in Indian educational settings. The article argues that whilst an ethnographic approach to understanding children can shed light upon how childhood as a structural classification of society, and in particular Indian society, is governed by its relationship with the adult world; attempts to provide explanations of childhood as a structural feature, necessitate an account of the age of children as a structural condition. Children's relationships with the adult world are quite different at different ages. This has implications for the educational ethnographer when attempting to gather data that provide understandings of children's social actions.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84867271570&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2012.717202
U2 - 10.1080/17457823.2012.717202
DO - 10.1080/17457823.2012.717202
M3 - Article
SN - 1745-7823
VL - 7
SP - 345
EP - 362
JO - Ethnography and Education
JF - Ethnography and Education
IS - 3
ER -