ABSTRACT

Changing views on childhood and children’s rights entail an increasing demand for listening to children's voices, even in research. All children are, in principle, seen as vulnerable participants in research, but our concern is the particularly vulnerable children. By listening to them, researchers increase the chances of contributing to the improvement of the children’s total situations based on their own experiences. In this article, after discussing why vulnerable children should take part in research and exemplifying how they should do it, we consider advice for enabling particularly vulnerable students’ voices to be heard in research in ethically justifiable ways. Recommendations for considering vulnerable children’s participation in research are proposed. While children may be regarded particularly vulnerable for a range of reasons, we draw attention to the student group in regular classes identified as having special educational needs by referring to examples from a recent research project in Norwegian schools.

摘要

对儿童和儿童权利的看法不断变化导致对倾听儿童声音的需求不断增加，即使在研究中也是如此。全部原则上，儿童被视为研究的弱势参与者，但我们关注的是特别脆弱的儿童。通过倾听他们的意见，研究人员增加了根据他们自己的经验为改善儿童总体情况做出贡献的机会。在本文中，在讨论了为什么弱势儿童应该参与研究并举例说明他们应该如何参与之后，我们考虑了一些建议，以在研究中以合乎伦理的方式听取特别弱势学生的声音。提出了考虑弱势儿童参与研究的建议。尽管出于多种原因，儿童可能被视为特别脆弱，