The narrative approach to informed consent : empowering young children's rights and meaningful participation / Fiona Mayne and Christine Howitt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Positioning the child as competent in the research process -- The conceptual model underpinning the narrative approach -- Developing and implementing an Informing story -- 'Yes, he gets it' : enhancing 3- and 4-year-old children's research participation through a digitally interactive narrative approach informing story -- Using a narrative approach informing story to engage 4- and 5-year-olds in research in the context of a study on the use of an augmented reality sandbox to enhance spatial thinking / Christine Howitt written with Rhys George and Grace Oakley -- Using a narrative approach informing story video to gain informed consent from 6-12-year-old children on their experiences in youth care / written by An Katrien Raes and Wendy Eerdekens -- Parental roles in supporting their young children's participation in research through a narrative approach informing story? -- Possibilities and challenges --Examples : the toymaker informing story and the toymaker participation story.

"The Narrative Approach to Informed Consent: Empowering Young Children's Rights and Meaningful Participation is a practical guide for researchers who want to engage young children in rights-based, participatory research. This book presents the Narrative Approach, an original and innovative method to help children to understand their participation in research. This approach moves away from traditional paper-based consent to tailor the informed consent process to the specific needs of young children. Through the Informing Story, which employs a combination of interaction, information and narrative, this method enables children to comprehend concepts through storytelling. Researchers are stepped through the development of an Informing Story so that they can deliver accurate information to young children about what their participation in research is likely to involve. To further inform practice, the book documents the implementation of the Narrative approach in four case studies demonstrating the variety of settings in which the method can be applied. The Narrative Approach to Informed Consent addresses the rights of young children to be properly researched, expands opportunities for their active and engaged research participation, and creates a unique conceptual ethical space within which meaningful informed consent can occur. This book will be an invaluable tool for novice and experienced researchers and is applicable to a wide range of education and non-education contexts"-- Provided by publisher.