Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and index.

Conceptions of children and childhood -- Historical perspectives of childhood -- Theories of socialization -- New studies of childhood -- Negotiating access for research with children -- The regulation of research in the social sciences -- Navigating institutional review boards -- Recruiting child participants -- Strategies for obtaining parental permission -- Getting kids to participate after you are in -- Confidentiality -- Defining researcher roles in research with children -- The effect of institutions on researcher roles -- Presentation of self as researcher -- Ethical challenges in social constructionist research with children -- Voluntary participation -- Communicating responsibly -- Reciprocity -- Interviewing -- Interviewing as a relationship -- Developing interview questions and protocols -- Strategies for eliciting verbal responses -- Individual interviews -- Group interviews or focus groups -- Art and photography -- Visual forms of expression and representation -- Communicating through participant drawings -- Communicating through photographs and video -- Communicating through maps -- Planning for visual activities -- Planning for analysis of visual data -- Journaling and other written responses -- Communicating through writing -- Written accounts as data -- Artifacts -- Technology and writing -- Analyzing data -- Internal and external narratives of meaning -- Analysis of context, contexts of analysis -- Analyzing visual data -- Analysis goes on and on -- Children as researchers -- The power of children's voices -- Why partner with young people? -- The possibility of true partnerships.