How Do Children Contextualize Their Well-Being? Methodological Insights from a Neighborhood Based Qualitative Study in Istanbul

Başak Akkan (), Serra Müderrisoglu, Pınar Uyan-Semerci and Emre Erdogan
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Başak Akkan: Bogaziçi University
Serra Müderrisoglu: Bogaziçi University
Pınar Uyan-Semerci: Istanbul Bilgi University
Emre Erdogan: Istanbul Bilgi University

Child Indicators Research, 2019, vol. 12, issue 2, No 5, 443-460

Abstract: Abstract Built on a neighborhood-based qualitative study that was carried out in Istanbul, this article explores the use of complementary research methods that explore how children contextualize their well-being within the spatial boundaries of a particular social location. Therefore, spatiality is used as a methodological tool to understand children’s subjective construction of well-being embedded in a web of relations. Using the framework of the social studies of childhood that constructs child as an agent, the research study puts emphasis in involving children in the research process as active participants and encouraging them to build their own narratives that manifest authentic childhood experiences. A variety of methods that are developed according to the age of the child are used in this study like in-depth interviews based on spatial experiences, in-depth interviews with a projection method, thematic focus groups and photography study. They are designed to facilitate a participatory research process that encourages the child to think through the spaces (school, home, neighborhood, etc.) along with a web of relations that his/her well-being is embedded in. The spatial understanding of child well-being in relation to subjective and objective conditions is the focus of the analysis of the qualitative research.

Keywords: Child well-being; Spatiality; Qualitative study; Agency; Participatory research; Neighbourhood (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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