• Book review: Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility 

  Wrigley, Terry (SAGE, 2020-03-17)

• Public Sociology as Educational Practice: Challenges, Dialogues and Counter-Publics 

  Scandrett, Eurig (Policy Press, 2020-09)

• Inclusive or exclusive participation: Paradigmatic tensions in the mosaic approach and implications for childhood research 

  Blaisdell, Caralyn (University of Sheffield, Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth, 2012-08-31)

  Early childhood research continues to be dominated by psychological research in the positivist paradigm. The Mosaic approach is one work that contests this dominant discourse on early childhood, using task-based, participatory ...

• Introduction to the Special Issue on involving children and young people in research 

  Blaisdell, Caralyn; Harden, Jeni; Tisdall, E. Kay M. (University of Victoria, 2014)

  The status of children and young people in social research has been a key area of debate since the emergence of the “new” sociology of childhood in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Sparked initially by work in sociology and ...

• Putting reflexivity into practice: Experiences from ethnographic fieldwork 

  Blaisdell, Caralyn (Taylor & Francis, 2015-01-07)

  In this paper, I discuss my use of reflexive writing during my PhD fieldwork, which was an eight month ethnographic study of one early learning and childcare setting. Going into my fieldwork, I was keen to explore how ...

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