TY - JOUR

T1 - 'Revelations through research partnerships'.

AU - Abbott, Lesley

AU - Gillen, Julia

PY - 1999

Y1 - 1999

N2 - We examine how the notion of partnership permeated the methodology of a project concerned with investigating high quality educare for children under three. Partnership, in this specific sense of involving participants in the construction of knowledge, meant full participation in data collection leading to a high degree of involvement in later stages of research. The roots of this approach lie in an interpretive perspective, owing much to Vygotsky 's holistic theory of child development, from which stemmed the study focus upon interactions with children. We present particular qualities of the fruits of bringing educarers and parents into a perhaps uncommonly broad span of the research process.

AB - We examine how the notion of partnership permeated the methodology of a project concerned with investigating high quality educare for children under three. Partnership, in this specific sense of involving participants in the construction of knowledge, meant full participation in data collection leading to a high degree of involvement in later stages of research. The roots of this approach lie in an interpretive perspective, owing much to Vygotsky 's holistic theory of child development, from which stemmed the study focus upon interactions with children. We present particular qualities of the fruits of bringing educarers and parents into a perhaps uncommonly broad span of the research process.

KW - interpretive research

KW - partnership

KW - Vygotsky

KW - qualitative methodologies

KW - educare

U2 - 10.1080/0957514990200105

DO - 10.1080/0957514990200105

M3 - Journal article

VL - 20

SP - 43

EP - 51

JO - Early Years

JF - Early Years

SN - 0957-5146

IS - 1

ER -