• 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 ...

• Evaluation of Talking Tales and Moving Matters residency projects 

  Blaisdell, Caralyn; Morton, Sarah (Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, 2016)

  This evaluation report deals with two artist-in-residence projects that took place in formal early learning and childcare settings.

• Listening to young children: Meaningful participation in early childhood settings 

  Blaisdell, Caralyn (Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, 2017-06-15)

  This briefing reports on research that looked at how listening to children was put into practice in one early childhood setting. It provides questions to help early years practitioners reflect on and deepen their participatory ...

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