Interviewing Young Children: A Socio-Cultural Approach

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Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax – Taking a Sociocultural Approach to Interviewing Young Children. By Jill Robbins. Published in NZ Research in ECE Journal, 2002, Vol. 5, pp. 13 – 30

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When conventional interviewing methodology is employed with young children there appears to be a tendency to overlook or avoid the ‘talk of man

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