Being, Learning, Sharing, Doing: Young children co-led research praxis
Our research evolved through ethnographic and participatory approaches including relational collaborative ethnography and intergenerational auto-ethnography, alongside creative, play and art-based approaches. We have named our approach Being, Learning, Sharing, Doing young children co-led praxis (BLSD).
BLSD evolved through being, playing, learning, sharing, doing and working together with 42 families with very young children under 8 (including two of the researchers’ own families), across various locations in Scotland and Greece. We also worked with a group of 16 young children advisors. Seven young children advisors (1.5-8 years old) across Scotland and Greece [four of which were children of two of the researchers (in Scotland)] and a group of 9 young children advisors from the Children’s Network in Greece. Young children and their families were involved from the early stages of research (e.g. theme of research), to co-designing child-community-centred play cafes, and to the actual creation of a pop up play cafes and play festival experiences for young children and their communities. Young children traversed through different ages during this time; the youngest was newborn, now 19 months, and the oldest 6 years old, now 8 years old).
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