Researching Children's Perspectives Book

	List of contributors
	Foreword
Pt. I	Theoretical and conceptual issues	1
1	Researching children's perspectives: ethical issues	3
2	The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: giving children a voice	21
3	Researching children's perspectives: legal issues	34
4	Researching children's perspectives: a psychological dimension	46
5	Researching children's perspectives: a sociological dimension	59
Pt. 2	Practical applications	71
6	Children and young people and care proceedings	73
7	A matter of life and death: a reflective account of two examples of practitioner research into children's understanding and experience of death and bereavement	86
8	The educational self-perceptions of children with Down Syndrome	98
9	Research involving children with severe learning difficulties	112
10	Let's do it properly: inviting children to be researchers	122
11	Researching 8 to 13-year-olds' perspectives on their experience of religion	135
12	A 'risky' business: researching the health beliefs of children and young people	150
13	Collecting the views of young people with moderate learning difficulties	163
14	Falling out of school: a young woman's reflections on her chequered experience of schooling	173
Pt. 3	Overview	187
15	Emerging issues	189
App. 1	Modification of Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Acceptance	201
App. 2	Schedule used for scoring the School Situations Grid	203
App. 3	Interview schedule for Sikh children	205
App. 4	Issues to consider when interviewing young people with moderate learning difficulties	214
App. 5	Schedule of suggested lead questions for pupil group discussions	217
	References	219
	Index	235