The Opportunities and Challenges of Using Photo-Elicitation in Child-Centered Constructivist Grounded Theory Research
In the last three decades, there has been a growing interest in listening to children’s voices in child health research. Ensuring an appropriate level of dialogical engagement with children calls for participatory methods. Auto-driven photo-elicitation interviews (PEIs) are a powerful approach to ob...
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| description | In the last three decades, there has been a growing interest in listening to children’s voices in child health research. Ensuring an appropriate level of dialogical engagement with children calls for participatory methods. Auto-driven photo-elicitation interviews (PEIs) are a powerful approach to obtain rich data from children. This article discusses the opportunities and challenges of using auto-driven PEIs in a health-related child-centered constructivist grounded theory study conducted in a poor-resourced country. Our experience shows that while the approach is effective for facilitating co-construction of data with children and for addressing the ethical and methodological issues associated with child-centered research in the context of a developing country, it is narrow on its own. Broadening the term to “picture-elicitation interviews” to allow for the inclusion of other forms of images would make the method more adaptable and inclusive. This would give children the flexibility of choosing pictorial options that best suit them and also help child participants and researchers address the practical and cultural challenges associated with the use of auto-driven PEI in a poor-resourced country. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-de773c876f314b25913193f666be60a82022-12-21T18:58:02ZengSAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods1609-40692019-07-011810.1177/1609406919851627The Opportunities and Challenges of Using Photo-Elicitation in Child-Centered Constructivist Grounded Theory ResearchBrenda Agyeiwaa Poku0Ann-Louise Caress1Susan Kirk2 Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom Department of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United KingdomIn the last three decades, there has been a growing interest in listening to children’s voices in child health research. Ensuring an appropriate level of dialogical engagement with children calls for participatory methods. Auto-driven photo-elicitation interviews (PEIs) are a powerful approach to obtain rich data from children. This article discusses the opportunities and challenges of using auto-driven PEIs in a health-related child-centered constructivist grounded theory study conducted in a poor-resourced country. Our experience shows that while the approach is effective for facilitating co-construction of data with children and for addressing the ethical and methodological issues associated with child-centered research in the context of a developing country, it is narrow on its own. Broadening the term to “picture-elicitation interviews” to allow for the inclusion of other forms of images would make the method more adaptable and inclusive. This would give children the flexibility of choosing pictorial options that best suit them and also help child participants and researchers address the practical and cultural challenges associated with the use of auto-driven PEI in a poor-resourced country.https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406919851627 |
| spellingShingle | Brenda Agyeiwaa Poku Ann-Louise Caress Susan Kirk The Opportunities and Challenges of Using Photo-Elicitation in Child-Centered Constructivist Grounded Theory Research International Journal of Qualitative Methods |
| title | The Opportunities and Challenges of Using Photo-Elicitation in Child-Centered Constructivist Grounded Theory Research |
| title_full | The Opportunities and Challenges of Using Photo-Elicitation in Child-Centered Constructivist Grounded Theory Research |
| title_fullStr | The Opportunities and Challenges of Using Photo-Elicitation in Child-Centered Constructivist Grounded Theory Research |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Opportunities and Challenges of Using Photo-Elicitation in Child-Centered Constructivist Grounded Theory Research |
| title_short | The Opportunities and Challenges of Using Photo-Elicitation in Child-Centered Constructivist Grounded Theory Research |
| title_sort | opportunities and challenges of using photo elicitation in child centered constructivist grounded theory research |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406919851627 |
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