Researching with young children: methodologies and ethics & Qualitative research methodologies for change: Action research, 19-20/07/2022

Στο πλαίσιο του Erasmus+ Teaching and Training HIGHER EDUCATION – KA107 INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY  διοργανώνονται δύο διαλέξεις με την επισκέπτρια καθηγήτρια του Πανεπιστημίου Μελβούρνης, κα Kylie Smith. Οι διαλέξεις θα πραγματοποιηθούν την Τρίτη 19/7/22 στις 14.00 και την Τετάρτη 20/7/22 στις  11.00 στην Αίθουσα Σεμιναρίων ΚΘΑ, ΤΕΕΑΠΗ με θέμα:

Researching with young children: methodologies and ethics & Qualitative research methodologies for change: Action research

Οι διαλέξεις απευθύνονται σε Μεταπτυχιακ@ς φοιτητ@ς και υπ. διδάκτορες, αλλά και σε κάθε ενδιαφερόμενο σε θέματα ποιοτικής μεθοδολογίας και έρευνας.

Θα δοθεί  η δυνατότητα και εξ αποστάσεως συμμετοχής μέσω Zoom (https://upatras-gr.zoom.us/j/92955969630?pwd=cWVKM0tQQ2VDY2I4QlJzeHFFYkg1dz09)

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Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες επικοινωνήστε με την Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Ευγενία Αρβανίτη στο earvanitis@upatras.gr

Visiting Professor Kylie Smith – Bio

Kylie Smith is a Professor of Early Childhood Studies in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has worked in kindergarten/preschools and long day care services for over 25 years. Kylie draws on qualitative participatory research methodologies to research with young children, families, early childhood educators and communities to create more socially just pedagogies and policies in the every day in and out of the classroom. She is the chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences Human Ethics Committee at the University with an interest in ethics, informed consent and assent, children’s voices and risk management in research.

Seminar 1: Tuesday 19 July 2022, 11.00-13.00, Seminar room KTHA, TEEAPH, University of Patras

Researching with young children: methodologies and ethics

In this seminar Kylie will draw on a number of participatory research project to discuss diverse ways to support children’s ethical participation. She invites participants to move beyond the exploration of methods of data collection to consider ethical and rights-based research protocols and practices exploring ideas around consent/assent, ownership of data, pedagogies of listening, and reporting back to children. Further, Kylie will open up dialogue to deconstruct the conceptualisation of child participation in research to explore power relationships and partialities.

Seminar 2: Wednesday 20 July 2022, 11.00-13.00, Seminar room KTHA, TEEAPH, University of Patras

Qualitative research methodologies for change: Action research

In this seminar Kylie will explore the possibilities of Action research as a qualitative research approach to create social change connected to professional identities, pedagogy and policy in early childhood. Emerging from critical theories Action research approaches are in nature participatory, practical and collaborative, emancipatory, critical, recursive, reflexive, and dialectical. Participatory action research (PAR) specifically supports researchers to research with rather then about people. Drawing from a number of projects Kylie will explore how participatory action research help shift and change how she, early childhood educators, inclusion professionals, how they understood themselves and the world around them differently at theoretical and practical levels. She will invite participants to consider how they might shape their research drawing on this approach.