Introduction: Researching Children and Childhood: Cultures of Communication, Pia Christensen and Allison James  1. Subjects, Objects or Participants? Dilemmas of Pyschological Research with Children, Martin Woodhead and Dorothy Faulkner  2. The Child as a Social Actor in Historical Sources: Problems of Identification and Interpretation, Harry Hendrick  Postcript: Raising the Ethical Dimension in Writing the History of Childhood and Children, Harry Hendrick   3. Macroanalysis of Childhood, Jens Qvortrup  4. Children as Respondents: The Challenge for Quantitative Methods, Jaqueline Scott  5. Conversations with Children: Working with Generational Issues, Berry Mayall  Postscript, Berry Mayall  6. The Development of Participatory Techniques: Facilitating Children's Views about Decisions which Affect Them, Claire O'kane  7. Childhood Diversity and Commonality: Some Methodological Insights, Pia Christensen and Allison James  8.

Race, Gender and Critical Reflexivity in Research with Young Children, Paul Connolly  9. Research with Children in War-Affected Areas, Mathijis Euwema, Donatien De Graaff, Ans De Jager and Brechjje Kalksma-Van Lith  10. Critical Omissions, How Street Children Studies can Address Self-Destructive Agency, Roy Gigengak  11. Disabled Children, Ethnography and Unspoken Understandings: The Collaborative Construction of Diverse Identities, John Davis, Nick Watson and Sarah Cunningham-Burley  12. Entering and Observing in Children's Worlds: a Reflection on a Longitudinal Ethnography of Early Education in Italy, William A. Corsaro And Luisa Molinari  13. Listening to Children: and Hearing Them, Helen Roberts  14. Children as Researchers: Participation Rights and Research Methods, Priscilla Alderson.