Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Young people as researchers (10 Jul 2005) The Children's Research Centre was set up on the understanding that children are experts on their own lives, that children's views on matters important to them are valuable, and that research by children can contribute to important new understandings by teachers and academics about childhood itself. The centre now works with numerous schools and outreach programmes, and has generated a book providing a step-by-step guide for others wishing to provide similar training2. Much of this work, to date, is broadly in the domain of social science studies, so that children are being trained in the skills and values of social scientists. This is perhaps inevitable, given that the interest has arisen directly from the social sciences. However, some academics have sounded a few notes of caution to those who believe that training children as researchers is automatically insightful and liberating. Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/art52.htm Read 134 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Key hacker magazine faces closure     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy