Purpose

The purpose of this article is to contribute to the research methodology literature that arose out of the (new) sociology of childhood and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (1989) with regard to conducting ethical research with children rather than on children. In particular, this article reflects on the development of a method (learning dialogues).

Design/methodology/approach

Learning dialogues were designed to enable children to share their responses to prompts about specific aspects of their lifeworlds. This was one method used to produce the data corpus which also included a large-scale survey, classroom ethnographies and (video) re-enactments of children's lives after school.

Findings

The piloting of the learning dialogues took place in several iterations and a particular form was used for the main study. The original idea and development of the learning dialogues highlights they were both a rich source of data that complemented the other data sources in the study and an activity that children indicated that they enjoyed. The authors discuss the practicalities involved with adapting a qualitative method to different settings and to projects with large numbers of children.

Originality/value

The conceptualisation of the learning dialogues as sources of personal documentation about aspects of children's lifeworlds was unique to this research. In thinking about the learning dialogues as one source of data within a broader project, the research aimed to be more inclusive of all participants in contributing to the findings produced in the project.

中文翻译：

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将学习对话作为数据：研究全球城市中儿童的生活世界

目的

这篇文章的目的是为了促进这方面进行伦理研究出现了童年和儿童（1989年）的权利的联合国公约（新）社会学出来的研究方法文学与儿童，而不是对孩子。特别地，本文反映了一种方法（学习对话）的发展。

设计/方法/方法

学习对话旨在使儿童能够分享他们对有关其生活世界特定方面的提示的反应。这是用于生成数据语料库的一种方法，其中还包括大规模调查、课堂民族志和（视频）儿童放学后生活的再现。

发现

学习对话的试点进行了多次迭代，主要研究使用了一种特定的形式。学习对话的最初想法和发展凸显了它们既是补充研究中其他数据源的丰富数据来源，又是儿童表示他们喜欢的活动。作者讨论了将定性方法应用于不同环境和有大量儿童的项目所涉及的实用性。

原创性/价值

将学习对话概念化为关于儿童生活世界各个方面的个人文档来源是这项研究的独特之处。在将学习对话视为更广泛项目中的一个数据来源时，该研究旨在让所有参与者更加包容，为项目中产生的发现做出贡献。