This paper sits in the broader context of doing research with children and relates to issues of children’s participation in research and the importance of respecting children’s rights. Children’s participation and active involvement in research have been extensively discussed and debated by authors in the childhood studies field. It is argued that children should be able to contribute to the decision-making process (Powell & Smith, 2009) and that researchers should value children’s roles in research (Scheffel, 2009) and research for and with children (Gallacher, Gallagher, & Keynes, 2008). This paper contributes to these debates by describing how children were encouraged to be actively involved in the data generation process in an ethnographic research project that aimed to identify different perspectives on creativity in Scottish primary1 education. This paper also relates to debates on ways of doing research with children, in terms of both ethical challenges and methodological choices, as mentioned below.

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与儿童一起做研究：选择鼓励儿童参与的伦理和方法

本文处于与儿童一起进行研究的更广泛背景下，涉及儿童参与研究的问题以及尊重儿童权利的重要性。儿童参与和积极参与研究已被儿童研究领域的作者广泛讨论和辩论。有人认为，儿童应该能够为决策过程做出贡献（Powell & Smith，2009 年），研究人员应该重视儿童在研究（Scheffel，2009 年）以及为儿童和与儿童共同研究（Gallacher、Gallagher 和 Keynes）中的作用, 2008)。本文通过描述如何鼓励儿童积极参与民族志研究项目中的数据生成过程来促进这些辩论，该项目旨在确定苏格兰小学 1 教育中创造力的不同观点。本文还涉及关于对儿童进行研究的方式的辩论，包括伦理挑战和方法选择，如下所述。