ABSTRACT

Persona Dolls are fabric dolls that are used as part of a specific approach (The Persona Doll approach) with young children to encourage inclusion and to challenge inequality and discrimination. Whilst dolls have been celebrated for foregrounding children’s voices in research, previous scholarship has not considered the potential for dolls to evade the insider/outsider researcher status dichotomy, facilitating a position of ‘inbetweenness’. In this Viewpoint, we propose the use of Persona Dolls in research with children as useful tools to combat the insider/outsider researcher status dilemma recognised in much geographical and other scholarship.

摘要

Persona Dolls 是织物娃娃，用作特定方法（Persona Doll 方法）的一部分，与幼儿一起鼓励包容并挑战不平等和歧视。虽然娃娃因在研究中突出儿童的声音而受到赞誉，但以前的学术研究并未考虑娃娃逃避内部/外部研究人员身份二分法的潜力，从而促进“中间”的位置。在这个观点中，我们建议在儿童研究中使用 Persona Dolls 作为有用的工具，以对抗在许多地理和其他学术研究中公认的内部/外部研究人员地位困境。