Ethics and Research with Young Children

Christopher M. Schulte is an Endowed Associate Professor of Art Education in the School of Art at the University of Arkansas, USA.

• Introduction, Christopher M. Schulte1. Rethinking Informed Consent with Children under the Age of Three, Margaret Coady and Kylie Smith2. Ethics as Play in Aesthetic Encounters with Young Children, Melissa Freeman3. Drawing Together: Towards a Relational Ethics of Ignorance, Hayon Park4. Wool Works, Cat's Cradle, and the Art of Paying Attention, Sylvia Kind5. Playing ‘School’ at Home: Towards an Ethics of Pliability in Parental Play, Christopher M. Schulte6. Working with Children in the Spaces Between, Shana Cinquemani7. Cultivating Epistemic Modesty in Research with Children, Christine Marmé Thompson8. Don't Forget to Show Them This One! Post-Qualitative Potentials in Research with Young Children, Marissa McClure9. Becoming a 'Mutated Modest Witness' in Early Childhood Research, Jayne Osgood10. The Cucumber Party: Parenting with a Posthumanist Ethics of Care, Laura Trafí-Prats11. Pondering the Pond: Ethical Encounters with Children, Bronwyn Davies12. Questions of New Materialist Ethics, Heather Kaplan13. Quantum Ethics: Intra-Actions in Researching with Children, Leslie Rech Penn14. Thing-Power-Child Entanglements: A Resituated Ethics of Research with Young Children, Sonja Arndt and Marek Tesar15. Finding Revolution in the Murmurations of Deep and Simple, Jaye Johnson Thiel16. (Non)sensical Literacies, (Non)sensical Relationships, Candace R. Kuby and Tara Gutshall RuckerIndex

An exciting and important contribution to the study of ethics as it pertains to working with young children, this monograph brings together international scholars with a deep commitment to seeing young children as social actors, contributors, and collaborators in matters of research. A must read for researchers and graduate students!