Researching Children: Are we getting it right? A discussion of ethics
Barbie Clarke,Family Kids and Youth
Agnes NairnEM-Lyon Business School
ABSTRACT
As the role of children in society becomes more prominent, their participation in research seems set to increase. In this paper we review whether we are getting the ethics of children's research right. We show that children are universally treated as a special case and that they have been accorded their own special set of human rights (UNCRC) which primarily grants them rights to protection and participation. We go on to argue (with practical examples) that the...