儿童作为研究者:一种新兴的研究取向

Children as Researchers:A New Research Orientation

伴随着当代人类的赋权解放和儿童权利运动,新兴儿童观及新童年社会学孕育起了"儿童作为研究者"的新的研究取向。它承认儿童作为积极的社会角色,认可儿童在研究中的参与、合作乃至领导地位,以儿童的个体生活及广泛的社会生活为研究内容,采用儿童适宜性的研究方法,旨在凭借知识的社会建构而实现儿童解放;它呼吁重建儿童主体的研究观念,确立双重的研究关系,获取多方面的外部支持,探索情境化的操作模式,考量儿童适切性的研究伦理。

＂Children as researchers＂ is brewing in the background of the empowerment and emancipation of human and children＇s rights movement, and has been pushed to the stage of history under the influence of the contemporary views on children and the new sociology of childhood. As a new research orientation, it avows that children play active roles in society and admits children as participants, cooperators, and even leaders of research. Its research subjects come from children＇s individual and social life, its research methods are suitable for children, and its purpose is to achieve the liberation of children with the social construction of knowledge. It appeals for the reconstruction of research concepts of children as subjects and the construction of a dual research relationship. It also calls for a wide range of external support and exploration of situational mode of operation. What＇s more, it evaluates the suitability of children research ethics.