Reflective Practice and Evaluation
Reflective learning from children and young people’s participation in CAFADA – an overview
Children and young people can meaningfully participate in our understanding and learning from social research. This can improve the quality of participation, the rigour of research, and contribute to accessible results that are easy to interpret for a wider range of stakeholders (Lansdown and O’Kane 2014).
Involving children and young people in reflective practices to understand and learn from research is an important way of ensuring that researchers can improve their participatory research practices and contribute to the ongoing body of literature on this topic. In CAFADA, this has been done in various ways including through: end of workshop activities; focus groups and interviews with children and young people; interviews with practitioners supporting children and young people; and reflective learning booklets for practitioners, researchers, children, young people and parents to complete.
Questions to consider:
- How will children and young people contribute to the understanding of and learning from your project?
- How will the project reflect and learn from and with children and young people who have been involved in the project, and respond to this learning? Within the research process and afterwards?