Learning Groups
Qualitative Methods Learning Group
Other Pages in this Section
Aims
The aim of this Learning Group is to share knowledge and expertise in relation to the use of qualitative research methods in increasing our understanding of the ways in which ethnic divisions impact upon young children's lives and shapes their experiences and perspectives.
Outputs
The Learning Group is currently preparing two Working Papers that will be made available via the Reports page of this website:
- The first Paper will provides a methodological overview of published qualitative research into young children's knowledge and experiences of 'racial' and ethnic diversity. In particular it will present a portfolio of the qualitative methods and techniques used in the research reviewed.
- The second Paper will critically evaluate the literature outlined in the first Paper and, in particular, will identify the gaps and limitations in current qualitative research on young children's knowledge and experiences of racial and ethnic diversity that have particular pertinence to the Una initiative.
LEARNING GROUP MEETINGS
Meeting 1- 19th -20th February 2009 in Melbourne, Australia
Meeting 2 - 5th -6th August in Chiangmai, Thailand
Meeting 3- 16th May in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Membership
Glenda MacNaughton (co-chair)
She has worked in the early childhood field for nearly 30 years. Glenda is currently a Professor in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia, where she established and now directs the research Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood. Her years in early childhood have included work across all sectors as a practitioner and a manager and she has been a senior policy advisor to government in the UK and Australia. Glenda has a passionate interest in social justice and equity issues in early childhood and has published widely nationally and internationally on these issues. She has been researching young children's constructions of race, gender and class for 10 yea
Sri Marpinjun (co-chair)
Sri is one of the founders of LSPPA (or Institute for Women and Children's Studies and Development), a Yogyakarta based non-governmental organization working for justice for vulnerable groups, particularly women and children. She is an anthropologist who has a very big interest in women and child education developed since her student days.
Currently she is the Director of LSPPA and has been leading her team to search what is equity in the perspectives of Indonesian women and children, and to experiment innovative models of rights based learning in more than 30 Indonesian local kindergartens and 20 primary schools together with teachers.
Audrey D'Souza Juma
Aga Khan University- Institute for Educational Development, Karachi, Pakistan
Audrey D'Souza Juma
Deevia Bhana
Faculty of Education University KwaZulu Natal, South Afrika
Deevia Bhana
Anke van Keulen
Mutant Bureau, the Netherlands
Anke van Keulen
Patricia Ramsey
Mount Holyoke College, USA
Patricia Ramsey
Rohaty Mohd Majzub
Faculty of Education,Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Bangi
Rohaty Mohd Majzub
Sumalee Kumchaiskul
Chiang Mai University, Thailand