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