Child-Parent Research: Methods, Ethics, and Literacies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

While extant studies by parent researchers offer insights into children’s multimodal meaning making (Bissex, 1980; Kabuto, 2008; Long, 2004; McCarty, 2012; Wolf, 1992), the area of child-parent research, wherein children are co-researchers, is an underdeveloped field that is rich with possibilities and potentialities for understanding youth literacies. This symposium includes child-parent researchers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines and foregrounds youth meaning making and digital/nondigital play through child-parent research. Child-parent researchers discuss their work in light of methods, ethics, and literacies. Tensions and trends in current and future scholarship are identified.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chairs

• Sandra Schamroth Abrams, University of South Africa

• Mary Beth Schaefer, Saint John's University

Papers

• Child-Parent Research: Methods - Sandra Schamroth Abrams, University of South Africa; Mary Beth Schaefer, Saint John's University; Charlotte Abrams; Molly Kurpis; Madeline Abrams

• Child-Parent Research: Ethics - Lourdes M. Rivera, Queens College - CUNY; Nora Rivera-Larkin; Dahlia Rivera-Larkin

• Child-Parent Research: Literacies - Alaina Lorraine Roach O'Keefe

Discussant

• Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, University of Cambridge