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- Title: Sue Heath, Rachel Brooks, Elizabeth Cleaver, & Eleanor Ireland (2009). Researching Young People's Lives
- Author : Canadian Journal of Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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Sue Heath, Rachel Brooks, Elizabeth Cleaver, & Eleanor Ireland. (2009). Researching Young People's Lives. Los Angeles: Sage Publications. 213 pages. ISBN: 9781412910569, 1412910560 (paperback); 9781412910552, 1412910552 (hardback) The field of Youth Studies embraces research on all aspects of young people's lives; it does not belong to one research tradition or discipline. Researchers in fields such as education, developmental psychology, cultural studies, and feminist youth research have been investigating issues connected with young people for many years. In Researching Young People's Lives, Sue Heath, Rachel Brooks, Elizabeth Cleaver, and Eleanor Ireland (2009) provide "an overview of key methodological challenges associated specifically with research focused on young people's lives" and "an introduction to a broad repertoire of methods which are particularly well suited to youth-orientated research" (p. 2). The authors define youth as young people in their mid-teens to mid-twenties. These boundaries are not standard in youth studies, but they are broadly in line with the United Nations' definition of youth (p. 4). Heath et al. suggest that, across fields and research traditions, researchers face similar challenges, questions, and concerns, but a number of issues, such as the relative powerlessness of young people, are unique to youth research. This argument is woven into the entire work, emphasized by examples of qualitative and quantitative studies from the fields of education, human, and social sciences.