Children Photographing Well‐being: Facilitating Participation in Research

By S. Gabhainn, Jane Sixsmith. 2006

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Children aged 8–12 years took 723 photographs representing wellbeing. Another group of children categorised the photographs, identified what was missing and discussed their inter-relationships. The largest categories were ‘people I love the most (friends)’ (23.2%), ‘activities’ (18%), ‘food and drink’ (17.2%) and ‘animals/pets’ (12.8%). Children reported that the categories were all related and could be subsumed into the general category ‘the way I live’, reflecting their holistic integrationist perspective on well-being which in turn mirrors the whole child perspective of the Irish National Children’s Strategy. The usefulness and limitations of this approach to working with children are discussed. Copyright 2005 National Children’s Bureau.

Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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1. S. O’Higgins
2. C. Fleming
3. S. Gabhainn
4. Jane Sixsmith

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2. C. Fleming
3. S. Gabhainn
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• Childrens', parents', and teachers' perceptions of child wellbeing (2007, methodology): “The primacy of pets to children's perceptions of wellbeing was identified previously in the application of this approach ( Nic Gabhainn and Sixsmith, 2006”