Including children's voices in a multiple stakeholder study on a community-wide approach to improving quality in early years settings

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2018-10-29
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Martin, Shirley
Buckley, Lynn
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Taylor & Francis Group
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This article will explore the use of visual participatory research methods with young children. These methods have been utilized to add young children's voices to research on the impact of a quality improvement strategy in an early years’ settings involved in a community-based prevention and early intervention programme. The main objective of the intervention programme is to measurably improve the lives of children (pre-birth to six years) and families through universal and targeted services in an urban community which experiences high levels of socio-economic deprivation. Children were offered the opportunity to share their views with the researchers through a variety of participatory rights-based approaches including drawing, photo-elicitation, photography, and conversations. Adding children's voices to the programme evaluation can help us to understand children's experiences and produces better policy and better services and also to interrogate the adult-centric quantitative data and adult perspectives generated in the ongoing project evaluation.
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Child participation , Early intervention , Participatory research with children , Photovoice
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Martin, S. and Buckley, L. (2018) 'Including children's voices in a multiple stakeholder study on a community-wide approach to improving quality in early years settings', Early Childhood Development and Care. doi: 10.1080/03004430.2018.1538135
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© 2018, Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Early Child Development and Care on 29 October 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03004430.2018.1538135