Children as co‐researchers in pandemic times: Power and participation in the use of digital dialogues with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown

This paper documents co‐participatory research with children in six primary schools in Ireland during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It explores the use of what we term digital dialogues with diverse groups of children aged 9–10 years as members of Child Research Advisory Groups. The paper conceptualises th...

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Published in:Children & society Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 235 - 253
Main Authors: Donegan, Aoife, Devine, Dympna, Martinez‐Sainz, Gabriela, Symonds, Jennifer, Sloan, Seaneen
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2023
Subjects:
Adults
Advisory groups
Children
COVID-19
Dialogue
education
Elementary schools
Pandemics
participation
Participatory research
Power
Power structure
Resistance
Schools
Shelter in place
ISSN:0951-0605, 1099-0860
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Summary:This paper documents co‐participatory research with children in six primary schools in Ireland during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It explores the use of what we term digital dialogues with diverse groups of children aged 9–10 years as members of Child Research Advisory Groups. The paper conceptualises the digital dialogues as sites of resistance as well as constraint, empowering children to articulate their voices in relation to schooling and the pandemic, whilst mediated by power dynamics—between adults and children, and between children, in the articulation of those voices.
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ISSN:0951-0605
1099-0860
DOI:10.1111/chso.12665